This is another fine mes you've gotten us into.

This is another fine mes you've gotten us into, Stanley," as Oliver Hardy famously used to say to his side-kick, Stan Laurel in the 1950 comedy series, Laurel and Hardy. It could be southerly Africa talking to its bills and notes; circulating medium

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As the rand, against all prediction, continues to strengthen, breaking end the R6:$1 barrier in mid July it has tossed more than undivided large cat amongst South African economic pigeons. It has also divided the abiding habitation into two contradictory camps--those who think the tough rand is good for the land and those who are certain it is