Tito was one of the good guys

The typical Western movie starts off with a town that is suffering injustice at the hands of a gang of criminals who spare no-one: women, children, the elderly and frail suffer at the hands of lawless criminals and have no-one to turn to.

- Sydney Majoko

Men who should be protecting their loved ones are slapped around and humiliated. Until a lone, nomadic, wandering man comes to town. And this is the good guy who saves the town and everyone.

The good guy in a Stetson hat. Tito Mboweni, although an eccentric dresser in retirement, did not wear a Stetson. But he was a good guy who responded when his country called. South Africa's trajectory post-democracy has been a descent from blindingly dizzy good vibes into an abyss of despair laced with unemployment, crime and infrastructural destruction.

As a result, it became almost impossible to spot the good guys. Especially those that were within the ANC of Nelson Mandela that largely brought the country those '90s good vibes in the first place. And then took them away. The country's first black governor of the South African Reserve Bank (Sarb) was one of the few who stood out as a good guy.