President Cyril Ramaphosa on Tuesday announced the creation of a R200bn loan guarantee scheme designed to help banks and hundreds of thousands of smaller businesses survive the economic fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The loan scheme will help banks to continue providing relief to businesses under duress by rolling loans on favourable terms, thereby providing them with a lifeline to continue trading through the crisis...

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