What is South Africa's currency?

As South Africa has eleven national languages, each of them is featured on at least one of the rand banknotes currently in circulation.On the R10 note there is English, Afrikaans, and SiSwati, while on the R 200 note you’ll find English, Sesotho, and isiZulu, for example. The eleven languages include English, Afrikaans, isiSwati, isiNdebele, Setswana, Tshivenda, isiXhosa, Sepedi, Xitsonga, Sesotho, and isiZulu.

The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) allows all old currency banknotes to remain in circulation.These include those that feature the Big Five animals, which were a part of the fifth issue of rand banknotes, in addition to the seventh issue with Nelson Mandela.

The South African currency name is derived from the word “Witwatersrand” which was the name of the high escarpment upon which Johannesburg, one of the capital cities, is located.