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The dollar replaced the South African rand, which had been the country's currency while it was under South African rule as South-West Africa from 1920 until 1990, at par. . The rand is still legal tender, as the Namibian dollar is linked to the South African rand and can be exchanged on a one-to-one basis loca
It is subdivided into 100 cents (sign: "c"), and a comma separates the rand and cents. [1] The South African rand is legal tender in the Common Monetary Area member states of Namibia, Lesotho, and Eswatini, with these three countries also having national currencies: (the dollar, the loti and the lilangeni respectively) pegged with the rand at ...
Although the South African rand is legal tender across the CMA, the other member states issue their own currencies exchanged at par with it: the Lesotho loti, Namibian dollar and Swazi lilangeni. Foreign exchange regulations and monetary policy throughout the CMA continue to reflect the influence of the South African Reserve Bank.
Exchange controls such as these were imposed by the South African government to restrict the outflow of capital from the country. The South African financial rand was the most visible part of a system of capital controls. Although the financial rand was abolished in March 1995, some capital controls remain in place.
In addition, two bullion coins with denominations of 1 rand and 2 rand were issued, replacing the gold half-pound and pound coins introduced in 1952. Both the pound and the rand gold coins matched the specifications of the British half-sovereign and sovereign (minted, among others, at the Pretoria branch mint until 1932), including the gold ...
Namibia (/ n ə ˈ m ɪ b i ə / ⓘ [17] [18]), officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa.Its western border is the Atlantic Ocean.It shares land borders with Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the east and south.
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FirstRand is listed as a "locally controlled bank" by the South African Reserve Bank, the national banking regulator. [8] As of May 2012, the group had total assets valued at US$90.3+ billion (ZAR:698 billion) (2011) [9] with subsidiaries in seven sub-Saharan countries and in Australia and India. Expansion plans in another six African countries ...