{"id":81709,"date":"2013-07-07T00:31:59","date_gmt":"2013-07-06T22:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=81709"},"modified":"2013-07-07T10:08:20","modified_gmt":"2013-07-07T08:08:20","slug":"new-sa-bank-notes-defective-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/81709-new-sa-bank-notes-defective-report.html","title":{"rendered":"New SA bank notes defective: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An important security feature on the new Mandela banknotes &#8212; which were rolled out in November last year &#8212; has been found to be defective, the Sunday Times reported on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The security thread, the most visible feature on the notes, which was meant to be embedded in the note, was found to be easily lifting off which could be a &#8220;counterfeiter&#8217;s haven&#8221;, the Sunday Times reported.<\/p>\n<p>The thread is produced by a German company.<\/p>\n<p>The notes are printed by a South African company, South African Bank Note Company, and a Swedish company.<\/p>\n<p>The Swedish company prints the R20, R50 and R200 notes while the South African company prints the R10 and R100 notes.<\/p>\n<p>The South African Reserve Bank &#8212; which wholly owns South African Bank Note Company &#8212; admitted to &#8220;isolated complaints&#8221; about the defective security thread on lower denomination notes, the Sunday Times reported.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on the SA\u2019s bank notes<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/25551\/mandela-bank-notes-circulating-in-november\/\"><strong>Mandela bank notes circulating in November<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/21477\/sarb-unveils-new-mandela-bank-notes\/\"><strong>SARB unveils new Mandela bank notes<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/5934\/new-mandela-banknotes-announced\/\"><strong>New Mandela banknotes announced<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An important security feature on the new Mandela banknotes has been found to be defective, the Sunday Times reported on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":81711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[35,20347,20345],"class_list":["post-81709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-headline","tag-mandela-bank-notes","tag-sarb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81709"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}