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essay GIFTS was founded in 2006 as a joint venture between Beatrice and her brother Rial. (Rial has since moved on to pursue a career as a ceramist.) Beatrice, a pharmacist by profession, returned to South Africa after spending several years in the United Kingdom as area manager for the largest pharmaceutical retailer in Europe. She needed a new challenge and wanted to make a difference in people’s lives. Hence, a corporate catalogue of products, each made by a local artist and with its own unique story or “essay” were put together to take to the corporate market. She believes, to this day, that the answer to crime in South Africa is job creation.