This year, we wanted to give you a gift that you could enjoy each and every day of the year. A gift that would outlive the “5-minute-novelty-value” test.

A gift that - somehow - stood for practicing the values of good corporate governance. We believe you would agree that without a commitment to the community, sustainable corporate development would be unthinkable. While other children look forward to receiving gifts at Christmas, thousands of HIV infected children in South Africa may not live to see another Christmas. Thousands more AIDS - orphans wonder what will become of them and their siblings.

So, instead of buying you - our corporate clients a gift and having a function this Christmas - we have, on your behalf donated funds to Cotlands, a long-serving South African non-profit organisation that strives to meet the ever-changing needs of children impacted by HIV/AIDS in our country.

The donation will fund the full expenditure of 10 children on Cotlands outreach facilities every day, for a whole year. They will be provided with everything from food, child care staff members, clothing, educare fees and any medical costs they require. We hope that you will enjoy receiving this gift as much as we have enjoyed giving it!Cotlands will issue a certificate acknowledging the donation on your behalf. We hope that you will display it with pride.