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3 unusual facts about South African rand


Cilla Battersby-Brown

Cilla revealed that she had placed their names in a competition to win the "South African sunshine family" award and had got to the final, with a chance to win half a million South African rand.

Oh Schuks... I'm Gatvol

The film's initial budget was R 2,000,000, but an extra R 6,000 was spent for the extras on board the aeroplane.

South African rand

A host of local and international events influenced the currency after that, most notably the 1994 democratic election which saw it weaken to over R 3,60 to the dollar, the election of Tito Mboweni as the new governor of the South African Reserve Bank, and the inauguration of President Thabo Mbeki in 1999 which saw it quickly slide to over R 6 to the dollar.


Afrihost

Afrihost originally entered the market aggressively, pricing themselves at R55 per GB of data transferred, where competing ISPs were still priced at South African rand per GB and higher.

Allan Boesak

In the late 1990s Boesak, at the time chairman of the Western Cape branch of the ANC, was accused of misappropriating over R400,000 of funds received from the Danish humanitarian organisation Danchurch Aid, the Coca Cola Foundation and the singer Paul Simon.

Coert Steynberg

The springbok design was reused on the 5 shilling and 50 cents crowns from 1948 to 1964, the gold 1/2 Pound and 1 Pound coins of the 1952-60 issues, the gold 1 Rand and 2 Rand of the 1961-83 issues, and on the Krugerrand medal-coin issues that have been issued since 1967.

Malawian kwacha

The kwacha replaced other types of currency, namely the UK pound sterling, the South African rand and the Rhodesian dollar, that had previously circulated through the Malawian economy.


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