Ratings agency Moody’s Investors Service pushed the Mangaung metropolitan municipality further into junk status this week, after it failed to service its  R51,9bn debt to lenders in December 2019.

The financial woes for one of SA’s biggest municipalities increased after it missed debt service payments on the two loans from the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) and Standard Bank. ..

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