‘n Lening van die Internasionale Montêre Fonds (IMF) is in sekere omstandighede ‘n besliste opsie om te oorweeg.

The South African government has asked the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for $4.2 billion. The money would come from a facility that provides financing to countries.

What conditions has the IMF attached to the disbursement?

The South African economy is in a much more precarious position than had previously thought. The recession will be deeper, and the effects will linger longer than we had anticipated.

A funding crisis seems increasingly probable. But would that lead to the IMF negotiating necessary policy reforms?

Die Internasionale Monetêre Fonds (IMF) het geen oplossings aangebied vir Suid-Afrika se vernietigende ekonomiese agteruitgang en baie ernstige fiskale en sosiale probleme waarvoor die sosialistiese ideologie van die ANC-regering direk verantwoordelik is nie,” sê Fanie Brink, ‘n onafhanklike landbou-ekonoom.

"The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has not offered any solutions to South Africa's devastating economic decline and very serious fiscal and social problems for which the socialist ideology of the ANC government is directly responsible," said Fanie Brink, an independent economist.

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