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Old Oct 22, 2008 | 3:09 am
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satprof
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Join Date: May 2002
Location: Roses, Costa Brava, Spain
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The South African Rand (ZAR) is really suffering at the moment. It's almost at a mid-rate of 11 Rand to the USD. If you use a rate of 10.8, a S African-based DONE4 is less than US$4,200 & an AONE5 just under US$7,100! (This excludes taxes/fuel fines, etc. but 8-12% should cover these, even with some UK stopovers.)

I foresee lots of work for Cindy @ Mindpearl.
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