In an interview broadcast on Saturday but recorded a day earlier, the ANC's newly elected Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa said he believed Mandela was "on themend".
If the seasonally adjusted rate for auto sales is now onthemend, he says, it's likely to mean unemployment, currently at 9.5%, will peak during the second half of 2010.
David Jones, an economist who has written two books on Greenspan's Fed, told The Associated Press he thought it was obvious Greenspan was moving quickly to "mend fences" with Lott.