South African rand still has further to fall

The South African rand has sold-off sharply in the past few days, but we think a combination of domestic political unrest, a challenging external environment, and a widening current account deficit could lead to further losses in the coming months. Indeed, despite already being significantly below-consensus, we have revised down our forecasts for the currency for end-2012 and end-2013.

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