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– Improving local political environment and the global market risk-on sentiment provided further support;
– The rand was also boosted by bets that U.S. interest rates will remain low for some time;
– On the Johannesburg bourse, shares dropped, however, after the health ministry said on Saturday it had detected the first four cases of a new coronavirus variant that emerged in India and was responsible for a surge of infections and deaths in the Asian country.
