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South Africa Shares its Currency

Perhaps BRICS, the acronym for a proposed currency union between Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, wasn’t on the official agenda at the 2023 trade meeting of these nations in Johannesburg, but South Africa is already paving the way for a more localized currency union of its own.

Prior to the 2023 15th annual trade summit between the so-called BRICS nations, British economist Lord Jim O’Neill told the Financial Times newspaper the group

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