{"id":23101,"date":"2026-01-30T07:40:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T05:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-central-bank-chief-economist-takes-early-retirement\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:33:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:33:57","slug":"sa-central-bank-chief-economist-takes-early-retirement","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-central-bank-chief-economist-takes-early-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"SA Central bank Chief Economist takes early retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The South African (SA) Central bank&#8217;s Chief Economist Christopher Loewald, a Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) member, is taking early retirement effective from March 1, 2026, the bank said on Friday.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He will start a six-month &#8220;cooling-off period&#8221; at the beginning of March and the process of appointing his successor is currently under way, the SA Reserve Bank (SARB) said in a statement.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The SARB&#8217;s MPC consists of up to seven members but currently only has six, including Loewald.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The MPC decided to keep its main lending rate steady at 6.75% this week in a split decision, with four members preferring no change in the repo rate and two favouring a 25 basis point cut.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The bank&#8217;s next interest rate announcement is scheduled for March 26.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15626,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-23101","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":null,"news_description":"Christopher Loewald taking early retirement","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26177,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23101\/revisions\/26177"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=23101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}