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5 Cents AFRIKA-DZONGA
| Issuer | South African Mint |
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| Year | 2000-2001 |
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| Currency | Rand (1961-date) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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South Africa's post-apartheid coinage introduced all eleven official languages across its circulating series, rotating the country's name through different language groups on successive issues. "Afrika-Dzonga" is Tsonga, one of the less widely spoken of the eleven — a deliberate political choice to give equal denominational presence to languages that had been systematically marginalized under the previous government's Afrikaans-and-English dominance.
The copper-plated steel composition replaced the earlier nickel alloy in the mid-1990s as a cost-cutting measure following significant rises in base metal prices.