Foreigners are ditching SA assets at the fastest pace on record as concern mounts that the government will lose its last investment-grade rating.

Overseas investors have sold a net $4.8bn of SA equities and bonds in 2019, the most on a year-to-date basis in data going back to 1998, according to data compiled by Bloomberg...

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