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Value of the South African rand to the United States dollar from 1975 to 2015 by the blue columns: The percentage rate of change year-on-year is shown by the black line. [8] One rand was worth US$1.40 (R0.72 per dollar) from the time of its inception in 1961 until late 1971, and the U.S. dollar became stronger than the South African currency ...
View history; Tools. ... black market, and OMIR exchange rates 1 Jan 2001 to 2 ... Zimbabwe but it was estimated 90% of transactions were in US dollars and 5% in Rand.
On 29 January 2009, the Zimbabwean government legalised the use of foreign currencies, such as the United States dollar and the South African rand.In response, Zimbabweans quickly abandoned the old Zimbabwean dollar, which was collapsing from what was at the time the second-highest ever rate of hyperinflation in the world (after the Hungarian pengő in 1946).
In 1993 Namibia issued its own currency, the Namibian dollar. In 2002 a new revenue-sharing formula was introduced in SACU, which included a development component. In 2003 Swaziland reauthorized the use of the rand as legal tender in the interest of facilitating exchange between these countries.
The financial rand system provided for two exchange rates for the rand — one for current account transactions and one for capital account transactions for non-residents. [4] Investments made in South Africa by non-residents could only be sold for financial rand, and limitations were placed on the convertibility of financial rand into foreign ...
The official Zimbabwean dollar exchange rate had been frozen at Z$101,196 per U.S. dollar since early 2006, but as of 27 July 2006 the parallel (black market) rate has reached Z$550,000 per U.S. dollar. By comparison, 10 years earlier, the rate of exchange was only Z$9.13 per USD.
In many countries there is a distinction between the official exchange rate for permitted transactions within the country, and a parallel exchange rate (or black market, grey, unregulated, unofficial, etc. exchange rate) that responds to excess demand for foreign currency at the official exchange rate.
On 6 September 2011, the Swiss National Bank announced that it would buy an "unlimited" number of euros to fix an exchange rate at 1.00 EUR = 1.20 CHF to protect its trade. This action temporarily eliminated the Swiss franc's hard currency advantage over the euro, but was abandoned in January 2015.