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Johannesburg - South Africa has not been immune to the effects of the prevailing global market turmoil that has its roots in the US sub-prime sector, said National Treasury Director-General Lesetja Kganyago on Wednesday.
"The road ahead (for global financial markets) continues to look bumpy. South Africa has not been immune to these developments," he said at the Reuters Economist of the year event.
Kganyago also said the slowdown in consumer demand, which has fuelled economic growth in the past four years but also been inflationary, was a necessary adjustment.