As a South African, much of your wealth – either business or personal – is going to be impacted by currency movements.

If you are able to crack the export market, you can benefit from Rand weakness but if you’re having to import goods and services, you will find that currency fluctuations will play havoc with your ability to forecast correctly.

Similarly, a significant portion of your investment return is decided by the performance of the Rand with a number of the major JSE stocks deriving earnings from overseas.

We have mapped the Rand against the US dollar, British Pound, Euro and Aussie dollar to highlight the currency depreciation over the past 10 months: