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- ↑ Dr Christian Lodewyk Stals [ permanent dead link ], South African Reserve Bank website, retrieved 9 November 2010
- ↑ Hlatshwayo, Nomile (3 November 2009). Excited Governor Mboweni bows out!, Times of Swaziland ("The 50-year-old Mboweni is the eighth governor of the SARB, having succeeded Dr. Christian Lodewyk Stals in August 1999")
