{"id":46766,"date":"2026-09-29T10:43:41","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T08:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=46766"},"modified":"2026-09-29T10:43:41","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T08:43:41","slug":"sas-foreign-direct-investment-inflows-pick-up-in-q2","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sas-foreign-direct-investment-inflows-pick-up-in-q2\/","title":{"rendered":"SA&#8217;s foreign direct investment inflows pick up in Q2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">South Africa (SA) recorded foreign direct investment inflows of $3.03 billion in the second quarter \u200cof 2026, up from $1.24 billion in the previous quarter, the Central bank \u200bsaid on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The SA \u200bReserve Bank said in its Quarterly \u2060Bulletin that the higher inflows were \u200bdue to a local telecommunications company \u200breceiving debt funding from a non-resident parent company.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">It did not disclose which company because \u200bthe transaction was not public.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Portfolio investments\u00a0\u200bswitched to an outflow of $547.7 million \u200cin\u00a0\u2060April to June, from an inflow of 9.0 billion rand in the previous three months.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Non-residents sold domestic equity securities amounting \u200bto $2.08 billion \u2060and acquired domestic debt securities amounting to $1.53 billion during the second quarter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The\u00a0\u200bacquisition\u00a0\u2060of debt securities was partly offset by the redemption of a $1.25 billion international\u00a0\u2060bond\u00a0\u200bby national government, the\u00a0\u200bCentral bank said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14374,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-46766","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"SA recorded foreign direct investment inflows of $3.03 billion","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/46766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/46766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46767,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/46766\/revisions\/46767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=46766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}