Johannesburg - The rand firmed late on Friday as falling US import prices capped a dollar bullrun, in a week that saw the local currency nosedive more than 3% to 13-year lows on domestic and offshore concerns.
At 17:18 the rand had firmed 0.45% to R11.6645 per dollar, while also gaining against the euro and the British pound, by 0.28% and 0.26% respectively.
The rand kicked-off the week around the R11.5000 mark and looked set for supports below that before capitulating to R11.8925 - its worst since March 2002 - as rolling power-outages and meek employment and output figures weighed.