Rand's magnum opus Atlas Shrugged has always been lurking in the shadows of our capitalist society and is almost a canon of conservatism, but its real relevance stems not from the objectivist philosophy it expounds but from the undue credit that we give to Rand herself for believing what she did.
The workers claimed that they were offered 126 to 190 rand for shifts up to 15 hours, and that on night games they had no transport to get home and slept in bus shelters or police stations in freezing conditions.
After paying only passing attention to the rand for most of the year, many South Africans are now stricken with anxiety over its precipitous drop and what it may portend.
He called for stronger action to protect children from the dangers of smoking.Westinghouse Electric continued its transformation from industrial conglomerate to media firm by agreeing to sell Thermo King, its lucrative refrigerated-transport operations, to Ingersoll-Rand for $2.56 billion.
Nandipha told me that she had to pay 500 rand for the little shack, and though there was electricity, water had to be collected from a stand pipe.
All costs are presented in 2009/2010 prices and estimated costs were converted to US dollars at the average exchange rate of the US dollar to South African rand for the 2010 financial year of US$1 = R7.80 [ 33].
"It was supposed to be 1,500 rand for supervisors and 1,000 for everybody else, and they gave us 190," he said of the security company.
According to the national gambling board, the five casinos that operated there in the year to March 2000 there are more now grossed over 2 billion rand ($325m) from deluded punters, and passed on 183m rand in provincial tax.Add in bingo and bookmakers, and gross gambling-tax revenues for the country crept up to nearly 450m rand for that year.
So join the hordes of videocam-toting tourists who take the rotating cable car to the top (27-21-424-8181; www.tablemountain.net; 130 rand round trip for adults, or about $19 at 6.89 rand to the dollar, and 68 rand for children aged 4 to 18).
As a result, polls indicate that some 39percentt of Republicans are currently thinking Rand-for-President in 2016, as compared to just 24percentt for Cruz.
