A red line crossed: South Africa seeks aid from IMF

The economic calamity of the coronavirus broke South Africa’s resistance to borrowing from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). And now some allies of President Cyril Ramaphosa and his ruling African National Congress (ANC) worry that the $4.2-billion loan his government is negotiating with the Washington-based agency marks the first step toward a slippery slope of submission.

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