"The more you have the more responsibility you have to share it with those who don’t."

- Wendy Appelbaum is a leading South African business woman, entrepreneur and philanthropist. Having previously enjoyed a high flying career in the business world, Wendy now devotes much of her time to her award-winning DeMorgenzon wine estate in Stellenbosch. Wendy was a director of Liberty Investors Limited, the previously listed holding company of the Liberty Group. In an earlier life she was the Deputy Chairman of Women's Investment Portfolio Limited (Wiphold), the first women controlled company to list on the Johannesburg Securities Exchange with then assets in excess of R1 billion. She also was deputy chairman of the Connection Group Limited, a major listed information technology and retailing company.