Almost 500 registered Tablers from 14 areas including Namibia, their spouses, and international delegates, attended the Association of Round Table Southern Africa’s (ARTSA) National AGM over the past week in Parys.
ARTSA was hosted by the STNOFS area, formerly known as the Southern Transvaal Northern Orange Free State area.

The theme for this year was Wild West.

The opening of the event started on Thursday evening with a cowboy-themed party including bull rides and country dancing.

Official conferences started on Friday morning, handling the business end of the conference, where the Tablers could wrap up the year-end of financials and branding strategies.

On Friday evening, the yearly Food Tables competition was held, where each province cooks food that represents their province.

At Saturday’s AGM, each area chairperson gave a report from the year past, and National President Antonie Smit finished his year.

The end of the week’s ARTSA was the gala evening where various awards were handed out and Vos Botha, incoming 2025/2026 president, and his new council took over the reins for the upcoming year.

The STNOFS area gave a warm heartfelt thank you not only to the excellent staff at Stonehenge, but to all the lodges, guest houses, and the Parys community for hosting the 450-plus Round Tablers, wives, kids, and 60 internationals the past week.

They also had a special word of thanks for the assistance given where needed during the flood situation, moving quickly and efficiently those accommodated at Sunwa to other venues.

Round Table is a nonprofit charity organisation that collected just over R30m as a collective for their communities around Southern Africa in the last year.