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Credit rating agency Fitch has warned South Africa that a failure to address the country’s electricity crisis over the medium term could add downward pressure on its current rating of the country.

Credit Rating Agency, Fitch says failure to address the problem of load shedding over the medium term could add downward pressure on the rating.Credit Rating Agency, Fitch says failure to address the problem of load shedding over the medium term could add downward pressure on the rating.

It says this could strengthen the government’s capacity to better deal with the crisis. However, it also points out that a generally poor track record on the execution of plans, including Eskom’s past governance issues, as well as the imminent departure of current chief executive Andre de Ruyter, suggests those problems may not be resolved as quickly as hoped.

The government is expected to take on a portion of Eskom’s R400 billion debt, which in this year’s budget speech could increase the national debt to GDP above 75%.

 

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😂🤣 deployment for Covid - no deployment for infrastructures damaged. Humans are being terrorised. What is the objective here. Self distribution at the cost of humans. Humanity. What's going on here?

The ANC should be removed. They really turned this country into a shithole

Oh they back? What did Ramaphosa do to upset them? Russia?

In Zuma's tenure they would've Downgraded us 17 times already

Does any sane person take any of these US rating thieves seriously? SA must distance itself from such rotten agencies that even their own government found them guilty of corruption.

Like the cadres care, as long as they are getting fat.

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