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Africa-Press – South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana\u2019s will spend about five minutes of his budget speech Wednesday on Eskom, if history is anything to go by. It\u2019s going to be a tense 300 seconds for bondholders.<\/p>\n

Four months after the government said it would take over as much as two thirds of Eskom’s R400 billion in debt, investors are still waiting to know the exact amount, the conditions and the mechanism of transfer.<\/p>\n

“Risks are high for disappointment,” Olga Constantatos, head of credit at Cape-Town based Futuregrowth Asset Management, said in an interview.. \u201cIt\u2019s going to be very negative if the debt transfer is not mentioned at all. And potentially, it may be negative if the solution is very vague and doesn\u2019t have the kind of clarity that\u2019s needed.\u201d<\/p>\n

South Africa\u2019s local-currency bonds have dropped 5.5% in February. That\u2019s more than double the average 2.1% decline in a Bloomberg index of emerging-market peers. The yield on 10-year notes has risen about 98 basis points in that time to 11.31%, the highest since December 2.<\/p>\n

Reducing Eskom\u2019s liabilities will allow the loss-making company to raise funds to carry out plant maintenance and strengthen the power grid. There have been planned electricity cuts every day this year, and for 13 consecutive months, a record based on Bloomberg calculations.<\/p>\n

But taking over the liabilities will add to the state\u2019s overall debt burden of almost 5 trillion rand and to its debt-service costs, the fastest-growing expenditure line item for about a decade.<\/p>\n

The yield on Eskom\u2019s unguaranteed dollar debt maturing in 2028 is climbing for an eighth consecutive day Tuesday, the longest such streak since September. A measure of the company\u2019s risk of default though has remained steady at June 2022 lows.<\/p>\n

“I think there is a growing recognition that we can no longer tolerate delays in taking the urgent and bold steps that are needed to start to restore Eskom to standalone financial sustainability,” Constantatos said.<\/p>\n

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