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Rand Refinery (Pty) Limited is the world's largest integrated single-site precious metals refining and smelting complex. It was established in 1920 to refine gold within South Africa , which had previously been refined in London .
Mittal Steel South Africa. ArcelorMittal South Africa is part of the steel company Arcelor-Mittal. [1][2] The company was originally Iscor Ltd., a South African parastatal steel company. It was founded in 1928 and was first listed on the JSE Securities Exchange in 1989.
The rand was introduced in the then Union of South Africa on 14 February 1961, shortly before the establishment of the Republic on 31 May 1961. The rand replaced the pound with a decimal currency: 100 cents (100c) = 1 rand (R1), 1 rand being valued at 10 shillings and 1 cent at 1.2 pence. The coins bore the forward-facing portrait of Jan van ...
The economy of South Africa is a mixed economy, emerging market, and upper-middle-income economy, one of only eight such countries in Africa. [31][32][33] The economy is the most industrialised, technologically advanced, and diversified in Africa. [34] Following 1996, at the end of over twelve years of international sanctions, South Africa's ...
The Krugerrand (/ ˈkruːɡərænd /; [1] Afrikaans: [ˈkry.ərˌrant]) is a South African coin, first minted on 3 July 1967 to help market South African gold and produced by Rand Refinery and the South African Mint. [2][3] The name is a compound of Paul Kruger, the former President of the South African Republic (depicted on the obverse), and ...
UTC+2 (SAST) Postal code (street) 1609. PO box. 1645. Modderfontein is a small town on the East Rand of Gauteng, South Africa. It began as a mining town adjacent to the Mud River, hence its name which is Afrikaans for "mud spring" or "fountain". It is located in the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, adjacent to Kempton Park in the ...
Randfontein is a gold mining town in the West Rand, Gauteng, South Africa, 40 km (25 mi) west of Johannesburg.With the Witwatersrand gold rush in full swing, mining financier JB Robinson bought the farm Randfontein and, in 1889, floated the Randfontein Estates Gold Mining Company.
South African pound. This infobox shows the latest status before this currency was rendered obsolete. The pound (Afrikaans: pond; symbol £, £SA[1] for distinction) was the currency of the Union of South Africa from the formation of the country as a British Dominion in 1910. It was replaced by the rand in 1961 when South Africa decimalised.