The South African Reserve Bank issued South African Rand banknotes in 6 different denominations, including this 50 South African Rand banknote (Nelson Mandela). They are part of the current South African Rand banknotes series. The South African Reserve Bank started issuing these 50 South African Rand banknotes in 2012. They are currently still in circulation.

The red 50 rand banknote from South Africa has text in English, Venda and Xhosa. It depicts the first democratically elected President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, on the obverse, and a lion on the reverse. Lions typically inhabit open savannah and grassland, but are sometimes referred to as ‘the king of the jungle’. One explanation for this seemingly misleading moniker may be that jungle is a word derived from the Hindi and Sanskrit ‘jungli’ meaning ‘wild’.

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