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After 1996, the coins carried the name in one of the country's 11 new official languages. The 10, 20 and 50 cent coins were slightly redesigned by enlarging the numerals of the coin's denomination. From 2000 coins carried South Africa's new coat of arms. From 2002, R1, R2 and R5 coins carried the country's name in two of the official languages.
[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 ...
4 – Units of the South African Defence Force begin to be issued with the R1 7.62 mm rifle, made in South Africa under license. October. 4 – At least 150 are killed when a commuter train derails at the outskirts of Durban. November. Rhodes University in Grahamstown installs a computer, the first university in South Africa to do so. Unknown date
New 5-cent coins were introduced in 1973, followed by 10, 20 and 25 cents in 1975. Coins were struck until 1977 at the South African Mint in Pretoria. Rhodesia had both 1 ⁄ 2 Cent and 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 Cents coins, just like in South Africa. The 1 ⁄ 2 Cent coin was struck between 1970 and 1977 - with the 1977 1 ⁄ 2 Cent being extremely rare ...
This is a list of online newspaper archives and some magazines and journals, including both free and pay wall blocked digital archives. Most are scanned from microfilm into pdf, gif or similar graphic formats and many of the graphic archives have been indexed into searchable text databases utilizing optical character recognition (OCR) technology.
On 4 October 1965, during the Apartheid in South Africa, a passenger train of the South African Railways with up to 1500 black commuters onboard derailed, killing 87 of them. As ‘revenge’ the passengers lynched a signalman and beat up another railwayman. Thousands of local black people came together in a protest march towards the disaster ...
1965 in South Africa (5 C, 6 P) ... Pages in category "1965 in Africa" ... This page was last edited on 23 December 2023, at 20:32 ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikimedia Commons; ... 1965 in South Africa; 0–9. 1965 Durban rail accident; 1965 in South African sport; S ...