1 British Pound Sterling = 22.7661 South African Rand

1 Omani Rial = 47.8577 South African Rand

1 Honduran Lempira = 0.7331 South African Rand

1 Australian Dollar = 11.9909 South African Rand

1 Chinese Yuan Renminbi = 2.5941 South African Rand

1 Hungarian Forint = 0.0568 South African Rand

1 Philippine Peso = 0.3634 South African Rand

1 Kenyan Shilling = 0.173 South African Rand

1 Latvian Lat = 30.3376 South African Rand

1 Egyptian Pound = 1.1791 South African Rand

1 Botswana Pula = 1.5111 South African Rand

1 Bulgarian Lev = 10.1639 South African Rand

1 Canadian Dollar = 13.0914 South African Rand

1 Euro = 20.1318 South African Rand

1 Mexican Peso = 0.7752 South African Rand

1 Brazilian Real = 3.2013 South African Rand

1 United Arab Emirates Dirham = 4.996 South African Rand

1 Sri Lanka Rupee = 0.0984 South African Rand

1 Algerian Dinar = 0.143 South African Rand

1 Indonesian Rupiah = 0.0012 South African Rand

1 Lithuanian Lita = 6.2149 South African Rand

1 Nigerian Naira = 0.0471 South African Rand

1 Czech Republic Koruna = 0.7302 South African Rand

1 Bolivian Boliviano = 2.6612 South African Rand

1 Japanese Yen = 0.172 South African Rand

South African Energy Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson said her department wants to address weaknesses in the process of commissioning renewable-power projects.

South African Energy Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson said her department wants to address weaknesses in the process of commissioning renewable-power projects.

Franchising is an often underestimated sector of the South African economy. With millions of South Africans seeking employment, small business is positioned...

Health Minister Zweli Mkhize says 3 953 South Africans have now recovered from the Covid-19 virus, which has claimed the lives of more than 180 people in the country so far.

[SAFA] This as the country records a total of 9 420 cases, with eight more deaths, bringing the death toll to 186 as of Saturday, 9 May.

CAPE TOWN: South African Fredie Blom celebrated his 116th birthday on Friday unfazed by the coronavirus crisis, over 100 years since the Spanish flu pandemic killed his sister."I have lived this long because of God’s grace," said Blom, possibly one of the oldest men in the world.Lighting a...

This self-assessment report looks at South Africa's investment regime in the light of the OECD Codes of Liberalisation and the principle of National Treatment.

Steel is one of the most widely produced industrial products in the world, and the sector depends heavily on a range of raw materials for its production. The aim of this workshop was to better understand the impacts of trade-restrictive raw material policies on the global steel industry and to explore policy approaches that would improve the longer-term efficiency and functioning of these markets.

This report is part of the OECD work programme on eco-innovation policies. The objective of this work is to complement the knowledge base on eco-innovation policies in OECD countries and to provide empirical material for additional research on policy issues related to eco-innovation.

In the two decades since apartheid ended, South Africa has made impressive strides to catch up with – and in some cases surpass -- the developed world’s environmental standards.

This paper provides an in-depth review of experiences and insights from mainstreaming biodiversity and development in South Africa. More specifically, it describes how biodiversity considerations have been mainstreamed in five key sectors/areas, namely: land use planning, mining, water, infrastructure, and the agricultural sector.

National development banks (NDBs) and development finance institutions are poised to play a role in bridging the investment gap for climate-compatible infrastructure in developing countries. This paper highlights the role of NDBs drawing from case studies of the Brazilian Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social and the Development Bank of Southern Africa.

The South African labour market continues to perform poorly compared to OECD and other G20 countries, and the global financial crisis appears to have worsened the situation.

South Africa has suffered from persistently high unemployment and low labour force participation rates. Moreover, country faces high qualification and field-of-study mismatch. Promoting skills development is a key priority in many of the South African government’s plans and strategies. As a result, the OECD suggests several policy recommendations and good practice examples from other countries in order to address those issues.

The OECD Behavioural Insights Conference brings together behavioural practitioners and policy makers from around the world to discuss how using behavioural insights can affect policy change.

South Africa must take urgent steps to proactively investigate and prosecute foreign bribery. No foreign bribery cases have been prosecuted since South Africa joined the Convention in 2007. The 4 on-going investigations – out of only 10 allegations that have surfaced to date – are also far from reaching the prosecution stage, according to a new report by the OECD Working Group on Bribery.

An excavation at a site in South Africa has unearthed the 190-million-year-old dinosaur nesting site of the prosauropod dinosaur Massospondylus–revealing significant clues about the evolution of complex reproductive behavior in early dinosaurs.

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Paleoecologist Conrad Labandeira travels to the Karoo Basin of South Africa to find leaf fossils from the Permian-Triassic boundary, the time of the Earth's largest mass extinction. What can bug bites on leaves tell us about our own uncertain times?

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Smooth and shiny, the tough body of the South African beetle Pedinorrhina trivittata, a flower eater, appears to be a non-inviting surface for pollen grains […]

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The daughter and granddaughter of Nelson Mandela lead the Mandela family in sustainable wine making.

Guide to choosing a budget safari, what to look for, how to make your money go further, and how to avoid common pitfalls.

South Africa currently runs a two-tiered healthcare system, comprising of the public and the smaller, rapidly -growing private sector.

The South Africa medical device market will register a 9.1% CAGR between 2017-2018 according to a recent Fitch Solutions report. This significant growth will raise the market to USD 1.27 bn by 2018.

Sustainable Disinfection and Food Safety for Gouda Cheese Plant