South Africa Land Bank Reaches Agreement to End Debt Default

  • Lender to resume loan repayments Sept. 16, chairwoman says
  • Land Bank has been in default for the past four years

Cattle grazing on a farm, outside Delmas in the Mpumalanga province, South Africa. 

Photographer: Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg
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South Africa’s biggest lender to farmers reached an agreement to resume repayments on its debt, four years after it defaulted.

The Land & Agricultural Development Bank of South Africa will resume repayments on its loans on Sept. 16, Chairwoman Thabi Nkosi told reporters in the capital, Pretoria, on Monday.