The Government Employees Pension Fund, which holds 50 percent of the Sanral’s issued debt, is not unduly concerned about the agency’s potential debt servicing difficulties, Business Day reported on Thursday.<\/p>\n
On April 28 the SA National Roads Agency Limited’s plans to introduce e-tolling were halted by a last-minute court ruling.<\/p>\n
According to the fund’s acting principal officer John Oliphant, although the fund held R15 billion in Sanral bonds, this represented only 1.5 percent of its total assets.<\/p>\n
Oliphant, with other senior executives, was briefing Parliament’s portfolio committee on finance on Monday.<\/p>\n
The bond market had hardly responded to the e-toll ruling, the daily reported.<\/p>\n
Leon Myburgh, Citi’s sub-Saharan Africa strategist, told Business Day: “I don’t think the market is paying too much attention. Because there is a government guarantee, I think the market looks at it and says, \u2018If Sanral doesn’t pay up, government will.'”<\/p>\n
Recent reports have also uncovered a connection between SANRAL and the British and Swedish companies already implicated in the South African arms procurement scandal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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