The rand: paying through the nose
The rand’s volatility shouldn’t shock us, but its painful loss of value over the decades is in our power to change
24 October 2019 - 05:00
In 1959, when the FM was first published, a single US dollar cost South Africans the equivalent of 71 SA cents.
Equivalent, because the rand itself was to make its appearance only in 1960...
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