Johannesburg - Growth in credit demand from South Africa's private sector quickened to 9.77% year-on-year in July, from a revised 8.63%t in June, Reserve Bank data showed on Friday.
The broadly defined M3 measure of money supply was at 6.86%, from a revised 7.26% in June.
Economists had expected credit growth to quicken to 9.0% and money supply to slow to 7.05%.