Celebrating South African Women: Part 1 During Women’s Month, Rand Rescue would like to give a shoutout to all the amazing South African women throughout the world. We’d also like to remind our readers of some of the greatest female trendsetters, visionaries, movers, shakers, athletes, creators and...
Eskom 2.0: Promising Plan or Misdirection? It’s a known strategy which has worked perfectly for many large corporations throughout the years - if you can’t make it go away, just reshuffle your deck. Whether failed department, project or venture, an organisational restructure is an easy way...
ANC: The Broken Record of a Broken Party The writing’s been on the wall for decades, and yet it seems that the only ones who can’t seem to read it are the ones who graffitied the writing onto the walls in the first place - the...
Saffas Abroad: Perilous Travels and Distant Dangers True crime has become a hot topic in the past few years. We’re not talking about your average news, of course, but of blogs, podcasts, YouTube channels, Facebook pages and the like which have popped up all over our...
The Year of the Gun: SA Beware Just over the halfway mark of the year, and it has already been a wild ride. A wave of political shake ups and other events have kept viewers glued to their screens to follow the news. United States of South...
Things That Didn’t Exist A Decade Ago So much has happened in these past few years, for most people life post-pandemic looks quite different to life before. We tend to forget how fast things change. For many of us the 90s feels like yesterday. So let’s take...
Accidental tax evasion: how to keep things above board If there’s one thing which sends fear into the hearts of all South Africans (and let’s be honest, people around the globe), it’s taxes. Few people have a proper understanding of taxes and even those who appoint qualified...
Financial Woes: Liquidation, Property Sales and Comeback Kids It’s no surprise that the string of global catastrophes the past few years had a massive impact on businesses both locally and abroad, but for South African businesses the matter is further compounded by a range of other...
Unique Sayings and Slang Around the Globe Language is quite fascinating. Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari, in his book ‘Sapiens: a brief history of humankind’, theorised that human evolution which saw the development of language is the deciding factor which spawned politics, economy and religion. His...
A Presidency In Peril: The ANC vs Ramaphosa South Africans are reeling from accusations made against President Cyril Ramaphosa by former spy boss Arthur Fraser, and by all accounts this is not going to be resolved soon. The president is feeling the heat from all sides. With...