South Africa’s foreign direct investment swung to inflows in the first quarter from outflows in the final quarter of last year as domestic private firms received equity and debt funding from foreign parent companies, the central bank said on Thursday. Foreign direct investment inflows totalled R11.7-billion in the first three months of 2019 from outflows of R8.2-billion in the previous quarter, the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) said in its Quarterly Bulletin.