Johannesburg - Growth in credit demand from South Africa's private sector quickened to 8.69% year-on-year in June, from 8.34% in May, reserve bank data showed on Tuesday.
The broadly defined M3 measure of money supply was at 7.24%, from 7.59% in May.
Economists had expected credit growth to slow to 8.1% and money supply to 7.5%.
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