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  • noun Plural form of kwanza.

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Examples

  • The central bank in 2003 implemented an exchange rate stabilization program using foreign exchange reserves to buy kwanzas out of circulation.

    Angola 2009

  • The central bank in 2003 implemented an exchange rate stabilization program using foreign exchange reserves to buy kwanzas out of circulation.

    Economy-overview 2008

  • The central bank in 2003 implemented an exchange rate stabilization program using foreign exchange reserves to buy kwanzas out of circulation.

    Angola 2008

  • An Angolan university professor earns about 50,000 kwanzas a month, a sum which was in 2001 worth some 2,500 dollars, but whose value has dropped today to less than 1,100 dollars (1,100 euros) because of inflation and a lack of wage indexation.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2002

  • Dos Santos, this time in the amount of 30.000 kwanzas (937.50 dollars), plus court costs.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2002

  • Thursday, and opposition parties said they were angered by the absence of a clear figure for defense spending in the total budget of 109.2 billion kwanzas (dlrs 5.5 billion/euros 6 billion).

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

  • Bus tickets increased from 0.40 kwanzas (six cents) to 2 kwanzas

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

  • Marques, a 28-year-old journalist, poet and human rights activist, also was ordered to pay 5,000 kwanzas (dlrs 1,000) in fines and court costs.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

  • The revised budget, worth around 5,000 trillion new kwanzas, was based on oil prices of dlrs 13 per barrel compared to dlrs 9 when the spending blueprint was first approved in June.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

  • Barnard said at one stage he stored Angolan kwanzas for Goosen, and asked girlfriend Amore Bandenhorst to help, but denied he was part of a scheme in which Pretoria attorney Evadne de Jager was conned out of R200000.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

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