South Africa's president is facing a fresh crisis as one of his ministers and political allies is being accused of interfering into an investigation into political assassinations. Despic Ramapora at a time when internationally his ties with the Trump White House is also strained. Ramapora was forced to issue a statement acknowledging the seriousness of the allegations at the brick summit in Brazil.Key to the allegations is the police minister Senzo Munu is being accused of sabotaging an investigation into p ...

Hopefully it has no effect. As you know, economists are basically unanimous on the importance that central banks be free from political interference when setting monetary policy. And the reason why economists are unanimous about that is if you just look at places where they do not have that, inflation is worse, growth is worse, unemployment is higher.I think it's a mistake if we're going to start messing with the with the political interference part. What we you can look at the minutes you and then eventual ...