Steve from Canada writes in, asking how expensive petrol and electronics are in South Africa. Well, Steve, if I’ve done my sums right, petrol, which currently costs about R6.50/litre, rings in at about $3.75 CAD a gallon. (For the U.K., R6.50 is about 50p.) The price is state-controlled, and fluctuates each month, on occasion by as much as R.35.
Electronics like digital cameras and laptops, meanwhile, cost about 1.5 to 2 times what they do in North America or the U.K. In other words, relatively (for N. America), and very!
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