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How can Catherine Pickstock's statement that "Traditional communities governed by liturgical patterns are likely to be the only source of resistance to capitalist and bureaucratic norms today" be interpreted in contemporary South Africa in such a way that justice and recognition are upheld? I propose to answer this question in the following four steps. First, the notion of liturgy with reference to politics will be briefly discussed. Second, modernity as an ongoing liturgical disruption, in general, and more particularly in South Africa will be discussed. Third, South Africa as a country between tradition and modernity will be addressed. In conclusion, some proposals for the facilitation of a liturgical politics in modernity, in general, and in South Africa, in particular, will be made. These proposals will be concerned with a plea for the province, the contemplative church and the contemplative university.

The SA Reserve Bank is a public company with shareholders in terms of the South African Reserve Bank Act, No. 90 of 1989 (Republic of South Africa 1989). This article considers shareholding in the SA Reserve Bank against the background of legislative amendments promulgated in 2010 and legal action instituted by the SA Reserve Bank against certain shareholders on the basis of these amendments. The amendments provide, inter alia, for shareholders regarded as associates in terms of the SA Reserve Bank Act to declare such relationship and their shareholding to the bank. While some associated shareholders made such declarations or provided undertakings to sell their shares, the central bank has reason to believe that the respondents against whom legal action is brought, are associates, but failed to disclose such associations in the manner prescribed by legislation. A matter for concern is that the legislative amendments of 2010 ex post reduce the rights of shareholders, while another option was available. The voting rights of all associated shareholders could simply have been reduced while permitting them to keep the shares, as was the case with a change of legislation pertaining to the SA Reserve Bank in 1944.