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The SARB’s next steps: lessons from the GFC

The post-Global Financial Crisis (GFC) experience suggests that the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) is unlikely to raise the repo rate within our near-term forecast horizon (to end-2022). Investors are anticipating that the SARB will hike the policy rate by the end of 2021.

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