Mboweni says RBZ can't be blamed for economy

South African Reserve Bank governor Tito Mboweni said on Tuesday 27 March that Zimbabwe's central bank can do little to curb rampant inflation as the causes are largely political.

"It is not possible for the Central Bank in Zimbabwe to resolve the inflation problem unless, for example, the fiscal policy position changes," Mboweni said in reply to a question in parliament's finance committee.

"Those constraints are not technical but they are political in the main," he said on what South Africa was

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