I agree with article. Few lay people and non-economists, whatever their political beliefs, understand complex central bank mechanics, micro and macroeconomics, public finance, etc. But because their brokers and bankers, business and the rest of the economically included status quo, incl frequently equally misinformed and biased media, shout "hands off the banks and financial institutions" like it's the sacred Ark of the Covenant, they chime in without understanding exactly what they're defending. 

The last paragraph esp "fearmongering of entrenched" 20 year-old interests, ie the apartheid-era economic status quo, a major contributor to SA's underperforming economy since 1994, is, as Jordan said, behind much of the hysterical responses now and previously to valid questions about the integrity and wisdom of SA's financial institutions and its and SA's underlying economic policy even the conservative IMF said must urgently be restructured.