Annual Report for the year ended 30 June 2016

摘要

Last year I made a rather prophetic statement: '...the Institute has had perhaps one of the more successful years in its 121-year history'. This, of course, was from the perspective of membership numbers. As at the end of the 2016 year, total membership across all categories stood at 4781 representing a decline of only 0.25% year-on-year (Table I and Figure 1). Of this number, 3258 are based in South Africa and a further 964 from our country branches (Table II). The balance is made up of members scattered across the globe. As last year, we continue to see strong growth in our more established country branches in Zimbabwe and Zambia, with a steady increase of membership in the newer branches in Namibia and Botswana.