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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).
[12] In 2014, South Africa experienced its worst year against the US dollar since 2009, [13] and in March 2015, the rand traded at its worst since 2002. [13] At the time, Trading Economics released data that the rand "averaged R4.97 to the dollar between 1972–2015, reaching an all time high of R12.45 in December 2001 and a record low of R0.67 ...
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.
South African rand: R ZAR Cent: 100 South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands: Falkland Islands pound £ FKP Penny: 100 Sterling £ GBP Penny: 100 Liberia: Liberian dollar $ LRD Cent: 100 United States dollar $ USD Cent: 100 Libya: Libyan dinar: LD LYD Dirham: 1000 Liechtenstein: Swiss franc: Fr CHF Rappen: 100 Lithuania: Euro € EUR Cent ...
The dollar replaced the South African rand, which had been the country's currency while it was under South African rule as South-West Africa from 1920 until 1990, at par. . The rand is still legal tender, as the Namibian dollar is linked to the South African rand and can be exchanged on a one-to-one basis loca
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South African rand at par The lilangeni (plural: emalangeni , ISO 4217 code: SZL ) is the currency of Eswatini and is subdivided into 100 cents. It is issued by the Central Bank of Eswatini (in swazi Umntsholi Wemaswati ) and is authorised by the king and his family.
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