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Renowned for pulling a crowd, the tourist revenue at a similar penguin colony at Boulders Beach, Cape Town has been estimated at over 300 million rand ($16 million) a year.
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Philip Lymbery and Leticia Carvalho, TIME, 7 June 2024
And in 2012, the tax authorities hit him with a 16 million rand ($1.2 million) bill for unpaid taxes; Malema had to pay up when the government threatened to seize his assets.
—Erin Conway-Smith, Foreign Affairs, 7 May 2019
For Veronica, the contrast was painful: all that money sloshing around, while people like her lost sleep every time the price of bread went up by another rand ($0.05).
—Ryan Lenora Brown, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 May 2024
The building that collapsed was meant to house two-bedroom apartment units that were selling for about 1.7 million rand each (about $92,000), according to local media reports.
—John Eligon, New York Times, 9 May 2024
The rand and the real both declined more than 9% against the dollar over the last three months.
—Julia-Ambra Verlaine, WSJ, 28 June 2022
The burly Scarpa Kinesis Pro fit the bill with their full-grain leather upper, Gore-Tex waterproofing and full perimeter rubber rand.
—Ebony Roberts, wsj.com, 13 Nov. 2023
Existing logistics constraints at Transnet are expected to cost South Africa’s mining industry 50 billion rand ($2.8 billion) in lost opportunities this year, Minerals Council South Africa Chief Executive Officer Roger Baxter said Oct. 5.
—Felix Njini, Bloomberg.com, 7 Oct. 2022
Impala Platinum Holdings reported a fall in profits for the fiscal year on lower revenue due to a drop in rand platinum group metal pricing, lower refined production and sales and after booking a number of impairments in its accounts.
—Ian Walker, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2023
Philip Lymbery and Leticia Carvalho, TIME, 7 June 2024
And in 2012, the tax authorities hit him with a 16 million rand ($1.2 million) bill for unpaid taxes; Malema had to pay up when the government threatened to seize his assets.
—Erin Conway-Smith, Foreign Affairs, 7 May 2019
For Veronica, the contrast was painful: all that money sloshing around, while people like her lost sleep every time the price of bread went up by another rand ($0.05).
—Ryan Lenora Brown, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 May 2024
The building that collapsed was meant to house two-bedroom apartment units that were selling for about 1.7 million rand each (about $92,000), according to local media reports.
—John Eligon, New York Times, 9 May 2024
The rand and the real both declined more than 9% against the dollar over the last three months.
—Julia-Ambra Verlaine, WSJ, 28 June 2022
The burly Scarpa Kinesis Pro fit the bill with their full-grain leather upper, Gore-Tex waterproofing and full perimeter rubber rand.
—Ebony Roberts, wsj.com, 13 Nov. 2023
Existing logistics constraints at Transnet are expected to cost South Africa’s mining industry 50 billion rand ($2.8 billion) in lost opportunities this year, Minerals Council South Africa Chief Executive Officer Roger Baxter said Oct. 5.
—Felix Njini, Bloomberg.com, 7 Oct. 2022
Impala Platinum Holdings reported a fall in profits for the fiscal year on lower revenue due to a drop in rand platinum group metal pricing, lower refined production and sales and after booking a number of impairments in its accounts.
—Ian Walker, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2023
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“Rand.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rand. Accessed 16 Jun. 2024.
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rand
noun
ˈrand 
ˈränd,
ˈränt
plural rand
1
: the basic unit of money of South Africa
2
: a coin or bill representing one rand
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