What is required to join:

• Potential member must be given an application form or this can be downloaded from the website
• Proposed and seconded by active members of the club – if the potential member does not know anyone there is a system in place to have your application signed off
• Subscription fee structure is 6 monthly – thus every six months in March and September fees are due
• No entrance fee
• Attendance at the members/candidates luncheon (this happens every 3rd Tuesday of every month)
• Supply shortened CV

General Information:

• 3 month probationary period
• May use the club facilities in second month of probationary period
• Has access to more than 130 reciprocal clubs worldwide
• Must keep admin offices updated with personal details
• Will be asked to come in and give a specimen signature
• Will be given a parking sticker to identify that you are a member and may park in the parking in front of club

Your privileges

• You are entitled to free parking in front of the club – this is on a first come first served basis, should the parking be full we have an arrangement with Surrey House parking across the road. You will get a R18 parking voucher should you get to the club and there is no parking. This R18 pays for 3 hours at Surrey house, during lunchtime only. Should you stay longer, then any amount more than R18 is for payment by yourself.
• You have access to more than 130 reciprocal clubs worldwide when you wish to stay at any of these clubs all you need to do is drop Roanne a line and she will do the necessary by doing the booking for you and sending them a letter of introduction. Credit card details are required now by all clubs overseas to secure your bookings – they do not debit any funds from your card. Please be aware that all bills must be settled at the club before vacating as Rand club is not responsible for any costs incurred at these clubs, and the bills may not be posted to the club either. The person to speak to for your reciprocity requirements is Roanne on email - reciprocity@randclub.co.za
• You have access to various function rooms at your club – the person to email is Colleen who does function bookings, sends you the menus and costing etc. Colleen’s email is catering@randclub.co.za.
• The Assore Sports Lounge – where we have our Jazz evenings and screen all major sporting events, a new room just introduced to the club recently – there are “pub lunches” available here – the times are from 11am to 7pm Monday to Friday.
• The club has a Snooker Room. 2 Libraries which between them has more than 10 000 books available.
• Our Main Bar is also open from 11am in the morning (our bar is reputed to be the longest in the world – 103 feet long)
• We have within the club small “clubs within the club” which consist of…Happy Hour 100 Club…first Wednesday of each month…it costs 100 per month to belong to this club and there is a prize draw every month. Good for networking and getting to know the older members of the club. We also have the Lunchtime 50 Club…2nd Tuesday of every month and costs R100 per month to belong to this club and there is a prize draw every month. The Rand Club Historical Association has a gathering the last Thursday of every second month. Our Poker Club evenings are also an event not to miss – this event happens last Thursday of each month in the evening.
• We have Oyster day the third Tuesday of every month. Curry day is the 2nd Wednesday of every month. A Table d’ Hote is also available in the Main Dining Room Tues – Friday every week.

Here’s hoping your membership with us will be a long and fruitful one and that you utilise the facilities that we have here and the reciprocity arrangements we have with clubs worldwide. We also have reciprocity locally with Inanda Club in Sandton.

Who’s who at the Rand Club:

GENERAL MANAGER – Mr Hein Papenfus
ADMINISTRATION/RECIPROCITY/OTHER – Ms Roanne Lloyd
MEMBERSHIP - Mrs Lisa Strydom
CATERING MANAGER – Mr Alain Lambert
ASSISTANT CATERING MANAGER– Mrs Colleen Lobban (TAKES BOOKINGS FOR FUNCTIONS AND DINING ROOM)
FINANCIAL ACCOUNTANT – Mr Riaan Strydom

We also have a very efficient accounts department, not to mention gracious serving staff. Our resident Executive Chef is Tom Couper. In addition we have various trained staff that work behind the scenes, to keep the club running smoothly. Emails are sent out on a regular basis to keep members updated on events at the club.