Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
History. The National Lottery was introduced to South Africa on 11 March 2000. At the time it was run by Uthingo. [citation needed]After a marketing effort that aimed to reach 80 percent of South African homes directly more than 800,000 tickets were sold in the first day of availability Nearly R70 million worth of tickets were sold in the first three weeks of operation.
1961–1964. 1⁄2 c, 1 c and 5 c coins issued between 1961 and 1964. 1 R and 2 R coin issued from 1961 to 1983. The rand was introduced in the then Union of South Africa on 14 February 1961, shortly before the establishment of the Republic on 31 May 1961. The rand replaced the pound with a decimal currency: 100 cents (100c) = 1 rand (R1), 1 ...
The consumer price index (CPI) is the official measure of inflation in South Africa. One variant, the consumer price index excluding mortgage costs (CPIX), is officially targeted by the South African Reserve Bank [1] and a primary measure that determines national interest rates.
The economy of South Africa is a mixed economy, emerging market, and upper-middle-income economy, one of only eight such countries in Africa. [25] [26] [27] The economy is the most industrialized, technologically advanced, and diversified in Africa. [28] Following 1996, at the end of over twelve years of international sanctions, South Africa's ...
The largest domestic TV deal is the Premier League, which has agreed a deal from 2022-2025 of £4.896bn for the three years. [1] It is also the highest value deal per game, as leagues in Scotland and England do not show every match live and have a Saturday 3pm blackout, banning all football matches to be shown live (both domestic and abroad ...
Only their records for South Africa are given here. ^ John Traicos also played Test cricket for Zimbabwe. Only his record for South Africa is given here. ^ Kepler Wessels also played Test cricket for Australia. Only his record for South Africa is given here. ^ a b c Jacques Kallis, Mark Boucher and Graeme Smith have all played for the ICC World XI.
South Africa lead the series by 28 wins to 16, with 2 matches drawn. Their first meeting was on 8 December 1906, as part of South Africa's first tour of Europe, with the match ending in a 3–3 draw. The most recent meeting between the two teams was in the 2023 Rugby World Cup , on 21 October 2023, which South Africa won 16–15.
This broke the record of 576 runs set by their compatriots Sanath Jayasuriya and Roshan Mahanama against India in 1997. South Africa's Jacques Rudolph and Boeta Dippenaar hold the 10th highest Test partnership with 429 made in 2003 against Bangladesh. [202] Wicket.