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Article Highlights:
- South Africa’s largest lender to farmers is asking creditors to approve a split of its operations in two to help repay debt over the next five years and claw its way out of a default position;
- Cash proceeds from one business unit will go toward commercial borrowings before the unit is eventually wound down; and
- he Pretoria-based company has been struggling to find a way forward since missing a loan repayment in April last year that triggered a cross-default in notes issued under a R50 billion bond programme.
