Boers are defined as "descendants of the Dutch-speaking settlers of the eastern Cape frontier in Southern Africa during the 18th century." This had a sort of influence over the British people who were also wanting to move to South Africa, and this caused some tensions between the two European presences in South Africa.
The value of Fiat currency is a nation's credit, and that is because it is used to clear off debt by the citizens of a nation.
Fiat currency is, thus, a government issued-currency that is not supported by physical commodity, such physical commodity can be gold or silver.
The value of fiat money then is gotten from the relationship between supply and demand and the stability of government issuing it instead of the worth of a commodity that backs it.
For example, the United states dollar, euro and many world currencies are all fiat currency.
Government, historically, mint coins from valuable physical commodity and print paper money that could be redeemed for a particular amount of physical commodity.
In the case of inflation or hyperinflation, fiat money tends to loose value and this is because it is not connected to physical reserves such as gold or silver. if people lose faith in the country's currency, it tends to lose its value.
This is entirely different from currency that is backed by gold mainly because the demands for products made of gold such as jewelries, computers, electronic devices and aerospace vehicles are very high.
Fiat currency is issued by most government as legal tender for the purpose of debt repayment
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The correct answer is "direct democracy", as it does not have one specific leader with absolute power.
