Your new South African Mandela Bank notes

The new face of our South African currency has been hailed as the first of its kind (displaying the first black face on South African currency) and as a small gesture of South Africa's "deep gratitude" towards Mandela.

While it is celebrated, there is also concern that many others like Tambo, Luthuli, Biko, Sobukwe and Tutu were left out. For others, there has been concern that there will no longer be any animals. To the former, unfortunately, only Mandela made the cut. To the latter, Mandela's face is on the one side while the "Big Five" have been retained on the other side of the notes.