New South African Banknotes.

[jones jones]

The Republic of South Africa has just brought out a set of new banknotes featuring the likeness of ex-President Nelson Mandela on one side. Here's an image of them.



What I found rather cute is the translation of "Reserve Bank" into one of the local dialects, Xhosa, (pronounced "Corsa.") It is written as "Bank Inkulu" (pronounced In-koo-loo) which translated into English means ... "Big Bank."

Guess thats a pretty good name for what in the USA is known as "The Federal Reserve System" and in the UK "The Bank of England!"

[Lady J]

The colours remind me of the bills in Barbados....

Very interesting about the names for the "Bank"