Lesetja Kganyago

The country's deepening economic crisis has shifted the power balance in government to the reformists: a triumvirate of President Cyril Ramaphosa Finance Minister Tito Mboweni and South African Reserve Bank Governor Lesetja Kganyago...

Mboweni said that for the South African Reserve Bank cutting interest rates was not a solution and said such decisions should be left to him and the central bank governor Lesetja Kganyago...

Supporting Ramaphosa's reforms are: Gordhan and Mboweni; ANC economic policy head Enoch Godongwana; Reserve Bank Governor Lesetja Kganyago; and former Public Protector Thuli Madonsela...

Mboweni who served two terms as Governor of the Reserve Bank is now the engine-driver with the highly rated Lesetja Kganyago at the Reserve Bank and Dondo Mogajane formerly Gordhan's director-general at the Finance Ministry now ensconced at Mboweni's side (AC Vol 58 No 21 Balancing the good cop with the bad)...

On 21 September Lesetja Kganyago governor of the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) called in the four major commercial banks which use KPMG as their auditors to discuss ways to dampen down the crisis...

The move followed earlier talks between the SARB Governor Lesetja Kganyago and senior bankers and audit firm executives...

The government's newly appointed economic team including the South African Reserve Bank Governor Lesetja Kganyago and Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene have taken strong measures to maintain stability...

Gordhan and Manuel prefer to clear structural impediments by in the words of Treasury Director General Lesetja Kganyago increasing productivity and reforming products and labour markets...

The contract of the Treasury Director-General Lesetja Kganyago comes up for renewal in January 2010...

Her most likely successor as chief civil servant is Lesetja Kganyago a deputy director general with a union and accounting background generally regarded as sharp: he is at present in charge of economic policy and international economic relations in the Treasury and was previously head of its unit which arranges borrowing on the markets ...