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South Africa’s unchanged credit rating described as positive for the country

23 May 2021, 6:51 AM  |
Tshepo Mongoai Tshepo Mongoai |  @SABCNews
While the decision still leaves the country in sub-investment grade or 'junk' status, it is seen as a vote of confidence in government's efforts to turn the economy around.

While the decision still leaves the country in sub-investment grade or 'junk' status, it is seen as a vote of confidence in government's efforts to turn the economy around.

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While the decision still leaves the country in sub-investment grade or 'junk' status, it is seen as a vote of confidence in government's efforts to turn the economy around.

Head of the Wits Business School, Professor Jannie Rossouw, has described the decision by credit ratings agencies Standard and Poor’s Global and Fitch to leave South Africa’s sovereign credit rating unchanged as positive for the country.

While the decision still leaves the country in sub-investment grade or ‘junk’ status, it is seen as a vote of confidence in government’s efforts to turn the economy around.

Fitch had indicated that it expected the public sector wage negotiations to eventually settle in line with the inflation rate of around four percent.

Rossouw says, “The fact that SA has not suffered a further downgrade means that the rating agencies express a degree of confidence in the effort of the government to turn the economic conditions in SA. It means that they have given SA some room to improve especially in the fiscal space.”

Economists hail South Africa’s unchanged credit rating as indicated in the video below:

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