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Message from the President

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 13th 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 4th instalment of this event and will be hosted in the Midlands in KwaZulu-Natal
  • Hunting weekend – 2nd 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

Dellorin Bornmann
President 2024/25

41’ER CREED

May the hinges of friendship never rust

May the chains of fellowship that bind us together remain unbroken

41’ER GRACE

We, the round tablers of yesteryear together under the hinge of friendship,

Humbly beseech thee o lord,

To ensure that we never forsake the vows on which round table is based,

And our thanks to you for the fare that we are about to receive,

Amen!

41’ER INTERNATIONAL

 
41’er International is the Association of 41 Clubs throughout the world. 41 Club is an organisation which further develops the friendship and comradeship which the members enjoyed when they were members of Round Table.
 
Members of Round Table are obliged to end their membership when they reach the age of 40 or 45, according to the country in which they reside.
 
Round Table was formed by louis Marchesi in Great britian in 1927 and 41 Clubs, which are clubs for former members of Round Table (Ex-Tablers or Old Tablers), started to be formed in the early 1940s. the Association of Ex-Tablers’ Clubs – 41 Club of Breat britian and Ireland was formed in 1945. 41 International was formed in 1975.
 
Today, the Associations of Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, India, Indian Ocean, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Romania, South africa, Switzerland, and Zambia are full members of 41 International but there are 41 Clubs in many other countries throughout the world.
 
41 International is led by and International Board which comprises a President, Vice President, Secretary/Treasurer and an Immediate Past President. An Annual General Meeting and a Half Yearly Meeting are held by the members each year. The main objects of 41 International are to maintain at international level contacts between clubs and their members throughout the world and to maintain the bonds of friendship which unite all Ex -Tablers. 41 International has aproximately 50,000 individual members.