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Rand Aid celebrates its employees’ long and dedicated service
Rand Aid Association (RAA) recently held its annual Long Service Awards to celebrate its loyal and dedicated employees. 40 years’ service Mercia Sekgarametso was awarded for a phenomenal 40 years’ service at RAA’s Tarentaal retirement village. Mercia started working for RAA at the Bramley C...
Ron Smith Care Centre spreads Mandela Day cheer
Rand Aid Association’s Ron Smith Care Centre (RSCC) residents and employees celebrated Mandela Day this year by writing postcards and delivering sweets to residents and staff at Rand Aid’s sister care centre Thembalami and the Max Ordman Deaf Association (MODA). Rand Aid’s senior nursing ma...
The Belvedere Group on Carte Blanche – “Indebted to the Dead”
Carte Blanche, in the week of 10th February 2021, ran an investigative feature on the Belvedere Group, titled ‘Indebted to the Dead’, relating to claims of outstanding payments to families of deceased Life Rights owners from the sale of their loved ones’ properties. Carte Blanch...
Visit Rand Aid’s all-new website
Rand Aid has revealed its slick side, with a brand-new website offering current and prospective residents and frail care and rehab clients all the information they need to know about the non-profit organisation. “While Rand Aid has entrenched itself as one of South Africa’s leading retirement...
New retirement village on the Glendower Golf Course
Work continues to make Rand Aid’s new retirement village a reality, albeit at a very slow pace due to the impact of COVID-19 regulations on the processing of the Town Planning application. “We trust that the change to Alert Level 1 will have a positive impact on the availability of officials ...
Let’s Talk About Dementia by Hendrik Baird…
I remember my great-grandmother quite well. Even though I was very small, she made a big impression on me. But as I grew up, I found I couldn’t have a conversation with her. Her mental capacity was that of a small child, even though she once was a powerful and strong woman. I was made …
COVID-19 vaporised at Thornhill Manor
Thornhill Manor resident Rudi Waage (pictured) takes up arms against the coronavirus. After extensive research, the village committee of the Rand Aid-run retirement village in Modderfontein decided to purchase an industrial fogger to sterilise communal areas. The fogger vaporises hypochlorous aci...
Thornhill Manor’s ‘people matter’ approach
People matter at Rand Aid retirement village Thornhill Manor, which is why the phrase ‘People Matter Here’ has been adopted as the village motto. It was coined by the new village chairman, Dr Dave Webster, who discussed it with the rest of the village committee. They decided it would be a gre...
Ron Smith Care Centre celebrates 103-year-old surviving COVID-19
Ron Smith Care Centre resident Kitty Venn has survived the coronavirus at age 103! After spending two weeks in isolation, she is back in her sunny garden room at the Rand Aid-run care centre in Lyndhurst, Johannesburg. Dr Christina Eleftheriades, who cared for Kitty during her time in the care ce...
Rand Aid: Care philosophy during COVID-19 and beyond
When Rand Aid Association was formed in 1903, it gave assistance to the destitute, the aged and to men left jobless by the Anglo-Boer War. In 1929, it again stepped up to support people hard hit by the global financial crisis and depression of 1929. Today, that ethos of caring remains firmly entr...