Rands in a sentence

However, it must also not be allowed to continue to wallow aimlessly in a sea of taxpayer rands.

In the past when we were still building a number of Sylvania of the dump operations, we did keep a fair amount of our cash in South African rands to fund these.

Letsemeng is one of the many municipalities in the Free State that still use the bucket system and pit toilets, despite hundreds of millions of rands in budgets over the years earmarked for better ablution facilities.

On hitting the milestone, Mrs Rands said that it was an achievement to get to her age and she is pleased about it.

We therefore have put in extra private security, over and above the policing – costing us thousands of rands every day – to see what will ultimately happen.

Zungu had been alleged to have been awarded a multi-million rands tender by the KZN department of education.

Public policy expert Dr Sam Koma said the were “sitting on large debt running into billions of rands with some like Eskom not recoverable.

Apart from sentimental items and personal inconvenience and hardships, millions of rands have been lost in the space of a few days by two fires which Umdoni Fire Services should have been able to keep to a minimum if appropriately responded to.

Despite a recession and huge public debt, Africa’s most advanced economy has set aside millions of rands for businesses and workers affected by the shutdown.

Inside the truck, police found beer, wine and ciders worth hundreds of thousands of rands.

MTN, which has had numerous disputes – costing it billions of rands – with the Nigerian authorities over the years, was at pains to say it was working closely with the said authorities.

Bank accounts belonging to a hijacked non-profit organisation (NPO), into which millions of rands in Lottery grants were paid, were used by controversial lawyer and Lottopreneur Lesley Ramulifho to help fund his lavish lifestyle.

In mid-February, Bantu Holomisa, president of the United Democratic Movement (UDM) party, exclaimed “we now know the cost of state captured – billions of rands have been stolen and state-owned enterprises (SOEs) have been weakened”.

Unfortunately one hears all too frequently about fly-by-night home improvement contractors who cheated unsuspecting homeowners out of thousands of rands by doing shoddy work or taking money for projects they never intended to complete.

I would not be surprised if Paul personally shows up, and hands out copies of Ayn Rands books in effort to get these kids to see his perspectives of the real truth, whatever the hell that might be….

Of that, R11.5 million belongs to Kotane, who City Press reported earlier this year provided Ramavhunga with a second income of millions of rands while he ran VBS.

Popular ways to make a few extra rands over the silly season.

Stop telling artists of colour to paint “poverty porn” and politically thoughtful pieces when what people spend thousands of rands on are pictures of still lifes and landscapes.

The fraudulent transactions also put millions of rands into the pockets of key VBS officials, who allegedly lived large on the proceeds.

Their continued sacrifice and passion for this calling can’t be counted in rands and cents.