Introduction - the growth of the financial sectory, 1950-1988, Stuart Jones; monetary policy in 1970s and 1980s, mark Addleson; fiscal policy 1974-1989, Vivian Solomon; changes in banking in South Africa in the 1980s, Ian Skinner and Edward Osborn; nedbank and the continental approach to banking in South Africa, 1945-1989, Grietjie Verhoef; Afrikaner nationalism in South African banking - the cases of volkskas and trust bank, Grietjie Verhoef; the first merchant bank - union acceptances, 1955-1973, Stuart Jones; the first discount house - the discount house of South Africa, Sue Kell; the leading hire-purchase bank - Wesbank 1968-1988, Stuart Jones and G.W. Scott; the building society to bank - the Allied, 1962-1989, Stuart Jones; the first development bank - the development bank of Southern Africa, 1984-1989, Stuart Jones; the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, 1962-1987, Stuart Jones.