SA's Competition Commission has become a handbrake on the economy: Rob Rose artwork
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SA's Competition Commission has become a handbrake on the economy: Rob Rose

Sep 11, 2026 · 20:08

Bryan Brownrigg was never a currency trader. He sold foreign exchange to Standard Bank's institutional clients for 23 years. But when the Competition Commission decided that 28 banks had run a single conspiracy to rig the rand, his name went into the complaint anyway, and it took a decade and a Constitutional Court ruling to get it out again. Financial Mail editor Rob Rose told Alec Hogg how one w…