Pretoria – New Reserve Bank governor Lesetja Kganyago was upbeat this Tuesday as he praised the South African economy’s resilience. ‘I’m thrilled to announce that we are closing our trade deficit, thanks to our fastest-growing export: reality-based courtroom dramas. The Pistorius trial is the big earner of 2014 but the Dewani case will boost balance-of-payments numbers well into the final quarter of the year.’
Kganyago addressed a group of European and Asian investors at a Reserve bank breakfast where outgoing governor, Gill Marcus, was being honoured. The new governor took the opportunity to support the pioneering partnership between the judicial system and the country’s entertainment industry, calling for increased foreign investment in the sector.
‘The world economy is, unfortunately, quite weak at the moment. It’s hard to sell platinum to car makers when many people in the EU don’t have money for petrol, let alone a new Audi,’ Kganyago added, expressing his delight with the world’s unquenchable thirst for scandalous entertainment. ‘Besides Oscar and Shrien, I hear there’s a Jub-Jub miniseries in the works aimed at the teen market. There’s also a new satellite channel being planned that will just be wall-to-wall road rage videos shot on cellphones.’…
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