Along with the dollar gaining momentum, sluggish crude markets weighed on commodity-reliant currencies, with Colombia's peso dropping up to 2.2% to a near two-month low.
Rand was 0.46% weaker at 15.2400 per dollar, marking a third consecutive session of losses as investors took a more circumspect view of the pace of the global economic rebound.
The United States $1.9 trillion fiscal stimulus plans and the likelihood of developed market central banks keeping liquidity taps open.