1st Edition
Financial Inclusion Regulatory Practices in SADC Addressing Prospects and Challenges in the 21st Century
Dedication
List of contributors
About the editors
Preface
Acknowledgements
1 An introduction to financial inclusion as an enabler of 21st-century Sustainable Development Goals
HOWARD CHITIMIRA AND TAPIWA V. WARIKANDWA
2 South Africa’s initial implementation of the Financial Action Task Force’s customer identity verification standards: Perspectives and reflection on regulatory processes and approaches
LOUIS DE KOKER
3 Financial inclusion or exclusion: A British perspective on poor underwriting questions in insurance law
NEELS KILIAN
4 “Shareholder capitalism” or an all-inclusive stakeholder model: What is the preferred corporate governance model for South Africa?
JEAN JACQUES DU PLESSIS
5 Impact of financial education on financial literacy and financial inclusion in Namibia
EUKERIA WEALTH, TENDAI D. SVOTWA AND CHARLES MAKANYEZA
6 The role of trade finance in promoting the financial inclusion of small and medium enterprises and the poor in South Africa
HOWARD CHITIMIRA AND FRIEDRICH HAMADZIRIPI
7 Mobile money: A double-edged sword to financial inclusion and Covid-19 prevention in Botswana
OLIPHA MPOFU AND NEDNAH MARAGA
8 Advancing financial inclusion for women in Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe
TENDAI D. SVOTWA, CHARLES MAKANYEZA AND EUKERIA WEALTH
9 Digital transformation strategies for financial inclusion in South African rural areas
GERTRUIDA VAN NIEKERK
10 “Economic inclusion” as a prerequisite and catalyst to “financial inclusion”? A case study of the economic exclusion of refugees in the Gauteng Township Economic Draft Bill
TINASHE KONDO AND YVETTE BASSON
11 The provision and administration of the Covid-19 social relief distress grant to promote financial inclusion for the poor and unemployed persons in South Africa
HOWARD CHITIMIRA AND PHEMELO T. MAGAU
12 Financial inclusion and youth empowerment in Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe
EUKERIA WEALTH, TENDAI D. SVOTWA AND CHARLES MAKANYEZA
13 An analysis of the policy and regulatory framework for financial inclusion in Zimbabwe
FRIEDRICH HAMADZIRIPI AND VIMBAI JANA
14 Climate change and financial inclusion in Namibia: A contemporary legal perspective
TAPIWA V. WARIKANDWA, EUGENE L. LIBEBE, ELIZE SHAKALELA, LINEEKELA USEBIU AND MARVIN R. AWARAB
15 Exploring the legal protection of bank depositors as an instrument for promoting financial inclusion in Zimbabwe
ASHLEY B. NYAUDE
Index
Biography
Howard Chitimira is Research Professor and Professor of Securities and Financial Markets Law at the Faculty of Law, North-West University, South Africa
Tapiwa Victor Warikandwa is Senior Lecturer in Private and Commercial Law at the University of Namibia
