You May Have Unclaimed Benefits, and Rand Rescue Can Find Them With so many people struggling to make ends meet and the unemployment rate shooting through the roof, it’s hard to believe that there’s nearly R45-billion in benefits just waiting to be claimed. Why are so many...
Preparing for Emigration 101 Many of us have considered moving abroad. Some of us want to do so over the medium-term - living and working abroad for a few years - while some of us have a more permanent move in mind. But what does it take...
Saving Money In Tough Economic Times In the past two years many individuals have fallen on hard times. The various global and local shakeups have created a cascading of financial contraction from the top down, with governments resorting to high-risk loan schemes and many businesses resorting...
Celebrating South Africa 24 September marks the annual observance where South Africans the world over celebrate our heritage, and although this date has come and gone, there’s no reason to stop the celebrations. In honour of all SA’s people, Rand Rescue once more wants to highlight those...
Is The Rand Headed For Another Crash? With South Africa moving to level 2 lockdown restrictions and infection rates dropping by the day, many are elated for the positive impact this would have on business and hard hit industries. But many experts warn that we should not...
Mzansi’s Funniest Moments and Memes of 2020-21 With all the loss and dissent afoot in the world it’s no surprise that we’re all reaching for some good news to lighten the load. South Africans have had our fair share of trials and tribulation these past few years....
South Africans Taking On Challenges For Charity Women’s month may have just passed, but that doesn’t mean we need to stop celebrating the amazing contributions made by South African women. In the hubbub of the past 20 months’ events some matters which may otherwise have been considered...
Out With Mboweni And In With Godongwana Earlier in August Tito Mboweni announced his resignation as Minister of Finance. Although Mboweni had indicated for a while that he was looking at stepping out of his role, the news still shocked and saddened many. We take a look...
The State of SA’s Economy It’s been pretty hard to make accurate predictions for South Africa’s economy in the past year. Although the ballpark prediction was a downward trajectory, the same could be said for most economies in the world, and we’d not yet had a...
New Pension Rules Proposed for South Africans - Expats Beware With all the ado of the past few months and many expedited regulations under lockdown, many proposed bills and rules may have fallen through the cracks of public scrutiny. Indeed, while ‘normal’ years would give us...