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The South African rand, or simply the rand, (sign: R; code: ZAR [a]) is the official currency of South Africa. It is subdivided into 100 cents (sign: "c"), and a comma separates the rand and cents. [ 1 ]
The Common Monetary Area (CMA) links South Africa, Namibia, Lesotho and Eswatini into a monetary union.The Southern African Customs Union (SACU) includes all CMA members in addition to Botswana, which replaced the rand with the pula in 1976 as a means of establishing an independent monetary policy.
Many African countries change their currency's appearance when a new government takes power (often the new head of state will appear on bank notes), though the notional value remains the same. Also, in many African currencies there have been episodes of rampant inflation, resulting in the need for currency revaluation (e.g. the Zimbabwe dollar).
Decimalisation or decimalization (see spelling differences) is the conversion of a system of currency or of weights and measures to units related by powers of 10.. Most countries have decimalised their currencies, converting them from non-decimal sub-units to a decimal system, with one basic currency unit and sub-units that are valued relative to the basic unit by a power of 10, most commonly ...
The South African Reserve Bank printed its first run of £1 (equivalent to £68.97 in 2023) notes in 1922. The Union of South Africa issued coins from 1923, in denominations of 1 ⁄ 4 d, 1 ⁄ 2 d, 1d, 3d and 6d, 1/–, 2/– (initially denominated as a florin ), 2/6, £ 1 ⁄ 2 and £1.
Pond (currency) Postal orders of Bophuthatswana; ... Media in category "Currencies of South Africa" The following 5 files are in this category, out of 5 total.
The first currency (XXX) is the base currency that is quoted relative to the second currency (YYY), called the counter currency (or quote currency). For instance, the quotation EURUSD (EUR/USD) 1.5465 is the price of the Euro expressed in US dollars, meaning 1 euro = 1.5465 dollars.
Investments made in South Africa by non-residents could only be sold for financial rand, and limitations were placed on the convertibility of financial rand into foreign currencies. [5] Financial rand had the ISO 4217 currency code ZAL. Financial rand had a previous life, from January 1979 to February 1983.