The lockdown ordered by President Cyril Ramaphosa to stop the spread of Covid-19 has thrown the country’s largest banks — and millions of their clients — an unprecedented curveball.

SA reported its first case of Covid-19 on March 5; just three weeks later the nation was placed in lockdown...

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