#StrongerthantheRand: 19 tweets that accurately describe South Africa’s falling currency

The strength of South Africa’s Rand has become a hot topic of late — more so than usual. Over the weekend the ZAR weakened to over R20 to the UK pound.

Right now it costs South Africans over R13 to the US dollar and R15 to the Euro. It might not be the right time to plan that overseas vacation.

Twitter is a unique entity: it allows a number of people to not only rant and rave about problems in the country, but also some together and comment on them in real-time. 

In true South African fashion, someone has created the hashtag #StrongerThanTheRand, which is now trending on the social media platform.

What makes south Africans unique is our ability to make light of difficult subjects — it’s a coping mechanism.

The #StrongerThanTheRand tweets are flooding in and contain a range of wiffy and fun comparisons to our diving currency.

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Here are 19 of the best #StrongerThanTheRand tweets we’ve seen so far:

And finally what we’re probably all thinking:

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