De jure and de facto independence of the central bank from fiscal authority. Per D.1.5 scope, one of the framework's defensible monetary positions.
Through the Nenegate (Dec 2015) and March 2017 cabinet-reshuffle episodes, the South African Reserve Bank and National Treasury publicly defended the 3-6% inflation-targeting band and SARB's constitutional independence against ANC NEC resolutions calling for mandate expansion and SARB nationalisation. Governor Lesetja Kganyago and Finance Minister Gordhan explicitly committed to policy continuity in communications with rating agencies and markets in 2016-2017.
Per invariant 3, reforms are scored by what they did on each channel-separated axis, not by the party that enacted them. This fingerprint is how the policy-match engine finds historical analogues.
Explicit links are curated by the author. Inferred links are hypotheses in the library that test the same axes this policy moved — the framework's answer to "what does the data say about a policy like this?".
Ranked by axis-fingerprint overlap with this policy. Direction match bolded — those are the closest historical analogues. Shape of the match is what drives policy-outcome comparison, not the country or party label.