Barclays exercises more caution in lending
Tuesday, September 26, 2017
Van der Merwe
While borrowers have not cut down on loan demands, the bank says it has become more prudent, resulting in an overall marginal drop in customer loans and advances during the half-year ended June 30, 2017.
For the period under review, the bank’s loans and advances decreased by 0.32% to P9.96 billion from P9.99 billion in the corresponding period last year.
Speaker of the National Assembly, Dithapelo Keorapetse, has this week rightly washed his hands of the mess, refusing to wade into a party squabble that has no clear leadership and no single version of the truth.When a single party sends six different letters to the Speaker’s office, each claiming to be the authoritative voice, it is not just confusion, but an embarrassment.Keorapetse is correct to insist on institutional boundaries. Parliament...