At 11.36am the rand was bid at 7.4297 to the dollar from 7.3822 at its previous close.
It was bid at 11.1790 to the euro from 11.1090 previously.
Against sterling it was bid at 12.1953 from 12.2828 before.
At 11.16am gold was quoted at $1058.80 an ounce.
A new study on nationalisation backs the creation of a sovereign wealth fund for windfall profits.
South Africa's biggest bank boosted headline earnings by 21 percent to R9.719bn in 2011.
New research debunks the myth that people need less income when retired than when they were working.
