African Bank Investments Ltd was placed under curatorship on 10 August 2014 by South Africa’s central bank. African Bank (ABIL), which provided cash loans to lower-income group South Africans would have needed R8.5 billion rand to keep afloat. What went wrong? After the economic downturn in 2008,
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