Message from Dellorin, President 2024/25

My Fellow 41ers,

Firstly, let me thank President Suren Packery for his leadership this past year and congratulate him on a great year.

What a huge honour to have this opportunity to lead this amazing organization. I was never sure what an honour it would be until I received the global directory. I thought we were not that a big organization, by number of members, but out of the 36 – 41er Associations around the world we are the 13^th biggest association, biggest in Africa. We have more members than Iceland, that is hosting the International AGM and Morocco.

Thank you to everyone that took the time to attend our AGM 2024. We had a great event and met new 41ers and tablers over the weekend. The AGM 2024 was a well-attended event, with over 140 people attending the Gala dinner the Saturday. The highlight for me was the mayor of Pretoria, Cilliers Brink, opening the conference.

Life is about friendship, and we have this in abundance in our origination and in the Round Table family.

My theme for the year is strength through unity. Here I refer to the relationship and support for not only Round Table but for the family and this includes Ladies Circle.

Through supporting the family, we will grow and help the family organizations in their efforts

This year we have some special projects and events:

• New and revamped website – will be launched at the end of January 2025
• Golf weekend – it is the 4^th instalment of this event and will be hosted in the Midlands in KwaZulu-Natal
• Hunting weekend – 2^nd instalment of this great event and we look forward to hosting our 41ers at this event
• Growth – we had good growth in 2023/24 but we need to open some more clubs/branches
• Namibia – we will be visiting Namibia in February 2025 and start a new friendship

We are also investigating updating the Rondel and please be on the look out for some great ideas around this.

All I all 2025 will be another great year for 41ers Association Southern Africa

May the hinges of friendship never rust, may the chains of fellowship that bind us together, remain unbroken.

Yours in 41ers

Dellorin Bornman