SA government is useless but our central bank is pretty on the ball. they make good timely decisions, for instance ours was the first to raise interest rates in the world (by a few months) in 2021. I remember reading the articles mocking this decision but behold the 2022 recession. So inflation was hard and high, but rode it out only a few percentage points.

In comparison the USA went from 0% to 5% which is a huge movement versus 0.5 or 0.6%

Crypto is open and unrestricted (but international pressure is forcing changes) with AML and KYC etc.