Stellenbosch teams win top prizes in 2022 Young Economist competition

In this year's Young Economist competition, in which teams of first year students from the Universities of Cape Town, the Western Cape and Stellenbosch compete to accurately forecast economic variables such as CPI inflation, GDP growth, commodity prices and exchange rates, Stellenbosch University students claimed all three of the top three prizes in the competition (sponsored by Die Burger).

The winners were: In third place Teuns De Wet Keuzenkamp (team name "Bright Battalion"), in second place Tshulani Hopewell Khosa ("Schüssler's epitome") and this year’s winner, Britney Middleton ("Marginal Matters"). (In the picture above, from left to right, Teuns, Britney and Tshulani).

The competition has shown growth this year with 59 teams and 101 students entering, a sharp increase compared to the COVID-19 years. The prize giving event was held at Media24’s Nasdak venue on the 19th of October where Willem Jordaan (editor of Die Burger), Prof Rachel Jafta and Tracey Solomon (economist at the BER) addressed the particpants.