12.
BORROWINGS (continued)
South Africa (continued)
Facilities obtained in February 2025 (continued)
Long-term borrowings – Facility A and Facility B Agreements
(continued)
Interest on Facility A
and Facility B as well
as any interest related
to utilization under
the RCF Agreement is
payable quarterly
in arrears at end of March, June, September and December,
with the first interest payment made on June 30, 2025.
Short-term facility - General Banking Facility
Lesaka SA and certain of
its subsidiaries may borrow up
to an aggregate of ZAR
700.9
million under a general banking facility
(“GBF”) from RMB for general corporate expenditure (including capital expenditure) and working capital purposes of the Lesaka SA
and certain of
its subsidiaries. Lesaka
SA utilized a
portion of the
GBF to refinance
its existing general
banking facility.
As of June
30, 2025, the Company had utilized ZAR
434.5
24.5
million) of this facility.
The GBF was available for utilization from February 28, 2025, and is subject to
annual review by RMB.
Interest on the GBF is payable monthly and is based on the South African prime rate
in effect from time to time less
0.50
%.
The GBF Agreement
also provides Lesaka SA
and certain of its
subsidiaries with other
facilities in an aggregate
of ZAR
100.7
million ($
5.7
million), which indirect,
short-term direct and
contingent facilities, including
bank guarantee, forward exchange
contract,
credit card
and settlement
facilities. As
of June
30,
2025,
the aggregate
amount of
the Company’s
short-term
South African
other
credit facility
with RMB
was ZAR
100.7
5.7
million). As
of June
30, 2025,
the Company
had utilized
ZAR
33.1
($
1.9
million) of
its other
facilities to
enable the
bank to
issue guarantees,
letters of
credit and
forward exchange
contracts (refer
to
Note 22).
Wesbank Facilities
The Company, through certain
of its
South African subsidiaries,
has an
asset-backed facility of
ZAR
227.0
11.3
of which ZAR
127.5
7.2
million) has been utilized.
Refinanced CCC Loan Document,
comprising long-term borrowings
On November
29, 2022, the
Company,
through its indirect
South African subsidiary
Cash Connect Capital
(Pty) Ltd (“CCC”),
entered
into
a
Revolving
Credit
Facility
Agreement
(the
“Refinanced
CCC
Loan
Document”)
with
RMB
and
other
Company
subsidiaries within
the Connect Group
of companies
listed therein,
as guarantors. The
transaction closed on
December 1, 2022.
The
Refinanced CCC Loan Document was scheduled to be repaid in full on November 2024,
but this has been extended to September 30,
On September 5, 2025, the Company, through its indirect South African
subsidiaries CCC and K2020 Connect (Pty) Ltd,
entered
into a new Revolving Credit
Facility Agreement (“CCC Loan
Document”) which replaced
the Refinanced CCC Loan Document
and
increased the amount available from
ZAR
300
400
299.9
million has been utilized as of
June
30,
2025).
The
refinancing
closed
on
September
8,
2025.
The
utilized
portion
of
the
Refinanced
CCC
Loan
Document
has
been
presented in long-term borrowings in the consolidated balance sheet as of June 30, 2025, because the Company has demonstrated that
it has the intent and
ability to consummate the refinancing
prior to the issuance of
these consolidated financial statements.
The terms
of the CCC Loan Document are readily determinable, the agreement does not expire in the next 12 months and there is
no violation of
any provision to the CCC Loan Document.
Both the
Refinanced CCC
Loan Document
and the
CCC Loan
Document contain
customary covenants
that require
CCC and
K2020 to collectively
maintain a specified capital
adequacy ratio, restrict the
ability of the entities
to make certain distributions
with
respect
to
their
capital
stock,
encumber
their
assets,
incur
additional
indebtedness,
make
investments,
engage
in
certain
business
combinations and engage in other corporate activities.
Pursuant to the CCC Loan Document, CCC and K2020 collectively
may borrow up to an aggregate of ZAR
400.0
sole purposes
of funding
CCC’s
and K2020’s
lending business,
settling up
to ZAR
20.0
million related
to an
intercompany loan
to
CCC’s direct parent, and paying
structuring and execution fee and legal costs.