Image: ReutersSouth African Reserve Bank Governor Lesetja Kganyago says theKganyago was briefing Parliament’s Standing Committee on Finance on the bank’s annual report.
He says currencies of other Latin American countries have appreciated significantly due to tightening their monetary policies more aggressively in 2021. Kganyago presented a graph that showed nominal rate of the rand and how it has depreciated significantly. “The panel right in the grey bars just shows the effective exchange rates of other emerging market economies and you can see with the exception of Argentina, Turkey and Russia, we have one of the most depreciated currencies. The other two countries being Malaysia and China that have got mild depreciations. Otherwise, the emerging markets universe have actually seen their currencies appreciating during the course of this year. Part of it the most appreciated in the Latin American countries.