Northam outlines benefits in loading up on debt
Every rand spent hoovering up Zambezi Platinum preference shares has a benefit for Northam and its empowerment partners in 2025
15 September 2019 - 19:54
Northam Platinum is loading debt onto its balance sheet, taking advantage of markedly higher prices for the metals it mines, to reduce its exposure to an expensive preference share falling due in May 2025.
In an empowerment deal in 2015, Northam put in place a complicated structure of preference shares held by newly created Zambezi Platinum. Every rand it spends now buying back the preference shares reduces the break-even price on the instrument and reduces its exposure to Zambezi’s liability...
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