South Africa launched a new line of bank notes on Saturday bearing the image of its first democratically elected president Nelson Mandela on the 22nd anniversary of his release from prison.
The notes bear the 93-year-old
former president's image circa 1990, the year he was freed from prison
in a moment that came to symbolise the fall of apartheid and the rise of
a new, democratic South Africa.
They replace a design featuring
the "big five" safari animals -- Cape buffalo, elephant, leopard, lion
and rhino -- introduced in 1992, two years before Mandela was elected
the country's first black president.
All five notes, 10, 20, 50, 100
and 200 rand will now bear
Mandela's face on the front.
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