South Africa’s Private Credit Growth Hits Over Two-Year High

2025-09-30 06:18 By Mariene Camarillo 1 min. read

South Africa’s private sector credit inched up by 5.86% year-on-year in August, following a 5.84% increase in the previous month.

Meanwhile, expansion in the broadly defined M3 measure of money supply rose 6.18% year-on-year to an all-time high of ZAR 5,624,450 million in August, slowing from a 6.75% in the preceding period.



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