Can South Africa’s banks weather the Covid fallout?

The economic fallout from the coronavirus crisis is likely to push bad loans in South Africa’s banking sector to levels that trigger a round of recapitalisations, which could further increase the burden on the public finances and reinforce fears about the trajectory of government debt.

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