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The Ora (symbol:Φ, [ˈʊəra]) [1] is the local currency of Orania, an Afrikaner town in South Africa first issued in April 2004. It is pegged at par with the South African rand. [1] The name, recalling that of the town where it circulates, derives from Latin aurum, meaning "gold". [2]
The South African rand, or simply the rand, ( sign: R; code: ZAR [a]) is the official currency of the Southern African Common Monetary Area: South Africa, Namibia (alongside the Namibian dollar ), Lesotho (alongside the Lesotho loti) and Eswatini (alongside the Swazi lilangeni ).
These included shells, [1] ingots, gold (gold dust and gold coins (the Asante )), arrowheads, iron, salt, cattle, goats, blankets, axes, beads, and many others. In the early 19th century a slave could be bought in West Africa with manilla currency; multiples of X-shaped rings of bronze or other metal that could be strung on a staff.
300th Anniversary of the founding of Cape Town, designed by Marion Walgate for the 1952 5-Shillings. The obverse continued the previous design by T. Humphrey Paget and the reverse the previous designs by George Kruger Gray. The 5-Shillings coin dated 1952 was a commemorative issue celebrating the 300th anniversary of the founding of Cape Town.
History of South Africa. Shaka Zulu in traditional Zulu military garb. During the Napoleonic Wars, the Cape Colony was annexed [citation needed] by the British and officially became their colony in 1815. Britain encouraged [citation needed] settlers to the Cape, and in particular, sponsored the 1820 Settlers to farm in the disputed area between ...
Jan van Riebeeck was born in Culemborg on 21 April 1619, as the son of a surgeon. He grew up in Schiedam, where he married a 19-year-old Maria de la Queillerie on 28 March 1649. She died in Malacca, now part of Malaysia, on 2 November 1664, at the age of 35. The couple had eight or nine children, most of whom did not survive infancy.
Durbanville, previously called Pampoenkraal, is a town in the Western Cape province of South Africa, part of the greater Cape Town metropolitan area. [3] It is a semi-rural residential suburb on the north-eastern outskirts of the metropolis surrounded by farms producing wine and wheat .
The currency of the Central African Republic is the CFA franc, which is accepted across the former countries of French West Africa and trades at a fixed rate to the euro. Diamonds constitute the country's most important export, accounting for 40–55% of export revenues, but it is estimated that between 30% and 50% of those produced each year ...