Very recent head of biology with South African money getting directions (8)

'very recent' is the definition.
I know nothing about this answer so I can't tell whether this works.

'head of biology with south african money getting directions' is the wordplay.
'head of' indicates taking the first letters.
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'south african money' becomes 'rand' (currency of South Africa).
'getting directions' becomes 'new' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
The first letter of 'biology' is 'b'.
'b'+'rand'+'new'='BRANDNEW'

Can you help me to learn more?