# South Africa Sovereign Credit Rating

> South Africa Sovereign Credit Rating is a paid API for AI agents from zaref.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Returns South Africa's current sovereign credit rating and outlook from Moody's, S&P Global, and Fitch, including each agency's most recent rating action date.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://zaref.dev/v1/sovereign-credit-rating
- Price: $0.005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/south-africa-sovereign-credit-rating-10b1d06e
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_M4p_uUebAHiJ0iVA8qGxK

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability south-africa-sovereign-credit-rating-10b1d06e
```

Example prompt: What is South Africa's current sovereign credit rating and outlook from Moody's, S&P, and Fitch, and when did each agency last change their rating?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need a quick, structured, and cited snapshot of South Africa's sovereign credit ratings from all three major agencies without needing to scrape or manually check each agency's website. It is ideal for financial analysis workflows, risk assessments, or monitoring tasks focused specifically on South Africa's creditworthiness.

## Known failure modes

- Data freshness flag indicates stale data if ratings have not been recently verified
- HTTP 402 if payment is not provided or is insufficient
- HTTP 404 if the endpoint path is incorrect
- Upstream source unavailability may delay freshness of rating action dates

## How this service works

South African SA sovereign credit rating (South Africa's current credit rating and outlook from Moody's, S&P Global and Fitch, with each agency's most recent rating action date.) Clean cited JSON with official source URL, effective date and freshness flag.

## Output

A clean JSON object containing South Africa's sovereign credit rating, outlook, and most recent rating action date from each of the three major agencies (Moody's, S&P Global, Fitch), along with official source URLs, effective dates, and a freshness flag indicating how current the data is.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "properties": {
   "type": "string"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "data": "current values with citations",
  "stale": false,
  "series": "sovereign-credit-rating",
  "source_url": "https://www.gov.za/news/media-statements/government-welcomes-fitch-ratings-upgrade-south-africa-08-jun-2026",
  "effective_date": "2026-06-08"
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/south-africa-sovereign-credit-rating-10b1d06e/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
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