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pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 52/2013 (27/12/13)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 52/2013 (27/12/13)

"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."  Winston Churchill

  • Looking back at 2013

 

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 51/2013 (20/12/13)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 51/2013 (20/12/13)

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow; learn as if you were to live forever."  Mahatma Gandhi

  • Final trip to Europe
  • CBS Risk Management System
  • Dates for 2014

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 50/2013 (13/12/13)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 50/2013 (13/12/13)

"After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb." 
Nelson Mandela

  • Tribute to Nelson Mandela
  • 2013 reviews: navels
  • Early 2014 exports

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 49/2013 (06/12/13)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 49/2013 (06/12/13)

"A morning without orange juice is like a day without sunshine."  Anon

  • 2013 review: valencia
  • Phytosanitary registration list

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 47/2013 (22/11/13)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 47/2013 (22/11/13)

"We live in a world where lemonade is made from artificial flavouring and furniture polish is made from real lemons."  Mad Magazine

  • 2013 review: lemons
  • CBS: EU ban

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 46/2013 (15/11/13)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 46/2013 (15/11/13)

"Patience is also a form of action."  Auguste Rodin

  • 2013 review: grapefruit
  • Some dates for 2014

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 45/2013 (08/11/13)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 45/2013 (08/11/13)

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair…"  Charles Dickens

  • The 2013 citrus export season
  • Egypt

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 44/2013 (01/11/13)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 44/2013 (01/11/13)

"You will make more allies in a week by getting yourself interested in other people than you can in a year by trying to get other people interested in you."  Arnold Bennett

  • Reason for optimism
  • Actual volume exported versus intial estimate

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 43/2013 (24/10/13)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 43/2013 (24/10/13)

"The truth will set you free."  Jesus Christ

  • Good news about CBS

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 42/2013 (18/10/13)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 42/2013 (18/10/13)

"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." James D Miles.

  • SHAFFE-Freshfel Global Citrus teleconference
  • River BioScience strategic planning session
  • Citrus Marketing Forum (CMF)

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 41/2013 (11/10/13)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 41/2013 (11/10/13)

"The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks."  Mark Zuckerberg

  • The 2013 seasons logistics challenges in Durban
  • Update on Maputo Port

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 40/2013 (04/10/13)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 40/2013 (04/10/13)

"If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing."  Anatole France

  • 2014 phytosanitary registrations begin
  • CBS Risk Management System (RMS) for 2014
  • AgriBEE Champions Course

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 39/2013 (27/09/13)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 39/2013 (27/09/13)

"Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn’t work out, you haven’t wasted a whole day."  Mickey Rooney

  • Students make the citrus industry proud
  • AgriBEE Champions Course
  • Citrus Marketing Forum (CMF)

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 38/2013 (21/09/13)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 38/2013 (21/09/13)

"The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it."  George Bernard Shaw

  • Annual Citrus Coordinating Meeting
  • Citrus Marketing Forum (CMF)

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 37/2013 (14/09/13)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 37/2013 (14/09/13)

“All of us need to stick to our pledge to fight back against protectionism. It is worrisome to see so many restrictive measures still being adopted and virtually none abolished."
Commissioner De Gucht, EU Commission

  • China and Hong Kong
  • CGA Board

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 36/2013 (07/09/13)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 36/2013 (07/09/13)

"The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team."  Coach Phil Jackson of Chicago Bulls

  • Vietnam
  • CGA AGM and Board meeting

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 35/2013 (30/08/13)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 35/2013 (30/08/13)

"I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to say in 20 minutes you ought to go away and write a book about it."  Lord Brabazon

  • New Director General at DAFF
  • Communication to fruit and wine industry members
  • Indonesia

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 34/2013 (23/08/13)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 34/2013 (23/08/13)

"I generally avoid temptation unless I can’t resist it."  Mae West

  • PMA Fresh Connections conference
  • Paper price increases
  • Important citrus industry dates

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 33/2013 (16/08/13)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 33/2013 (16/08/13)

"In case you’re worried about what’s going to become of the younger generation, it’s going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation."  Roger Allen

  • Vietnam
  • South Korea
  • PMA Fresh Connections

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 32/2013 (09/08/13)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 32/2013 (09/08/13)

"The problem with political jokes is they get elected."  Henry Cate VII

  • Philippines
  • Quality lemons
  • Durban congestion

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 31/2013 (02/08/13)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 31/2013 (02/08/13)

"The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do." Steve Jobs

  • Message from DAFF
  • Upcoming events

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 30/2013 (26/07/13)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 30/2013 (26/07/13)

"It’s not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas."  Edwin Land

  • Meeting with DAFF
  • CBS update
  • Upcoming events

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 29/2013 (19/07/13)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 29/2013 (19/07/13)

"There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living."  Nelson Mandela

  • European Union - South Africa Summit

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 28/2013 (12/07/13)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 28/2013 (12/07/13)

"We can’t all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the kerb and clap as they go by." 
Will Rogers

  • Agreements with government
  • Citrus Black Spot - Commitment to compliance

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 27/2013 (05/07/13)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 27/2013 (05/07/13)

"Orange is the happiest colour."  Frank Sinatra

  • Oranges take top spot
  • Citrus Black Spot - Commitment to compliance

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 26/2013 (28/06/13)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 26/2013 (28/06/13)

"He who fails to plan is planning to fail."  Winston Churchill

  • CGA Strategic Planning Session
  • Citrus Black Spot - Commitment to compliance

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 25/2013 (21/06/13)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 25/2013 (21/06/13)

"It’s extremely difficult to convince someone to understand something if his salary depends on his not understanding it."  Dr. Upton Sinclair

  • Citrus Black Spot - Commitment to compliance
  • Eastern markets
  • Ports Regulator
  • Spanish grapefruit

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 24/2013 (14/06/13)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 24/2013 (14/06/13)

"Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies."  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

  • Labour
  • Citrus Black Spot

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 23/2013 (07/06/13)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 23/2013 (07/06/13)

"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."  Martin Luther King Jr.

  • CGA representative in the USA
  • Issuance of export certificates
  • Statistics booklet
  • Citrus Black Spot bulletin

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 22/2013 (31/05/13)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 22/2013 (31/05/13)

"Some people dance in the rain – others get wet."  Bob Marley

  • Durban Port
  • Condition of cartons
  • Russia - official figures from 2012

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 21/2013 (24/05/13)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 21/2013 (24/05/13)

"Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before, and wiser than the one that comes after it."  George Orwell

  • Commitment to compliance
  • CRI workshops

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 20/2013 (17/05/13)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 20/2013 (17/05/13)

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena...”  Theodore Roosevelt

  • Dr D.J. (Hoppie) Nel
  • Information

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 19/2013 (10/05/13)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 19/2013 (10/05/13)

"The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein: it rejects it."  PB Medawar

  • Fresh Produce Exporters Forum (FPEF)
  • Durban Port
  • CBS advisory
  • Lemons

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 18/2013 (03/05/13)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 18/2013 (03/05/13)

"If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I would spend six hours sharpening my axe." Abraham Lincoln

  • Citrus Research International: Segments
  • International trends

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 17/2013 (26/04/13)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 17/2013 (26/04/13)

"Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable."  Mark Twain

  • Global Citrus Teleconference

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 16/2013 (19/04/13)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 16/2013 (19/04/13)

"The fundamental cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt."  Bertrand Russell

  • SIZA workshops
  • CBA and logistics briefing
  • World citrus production

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 15/2013 (12/04/13)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 15/2013 (12/04/13)

"Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't." 
Margaret Thatcher

  • CRI production workshops
  • TNPA tariff adjustments 2013/14
  • Levy administered by CGA
  • Important information for growers, packhouses and export agents

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 14/2013 (05/04/13)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 14/2013 (05/04/13)

"I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me."  Noel Coward

  • Fruit South Africa / SIZA information workshops
  • Citrus Improvement Scheme (CIS)

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 13/2013 (29/03/13)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 13/2013 (29/03/13)

"Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it."  Salvador Dali

  • Sunday's River Valley
  • Cool logistics conference

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 12/2013 (22/03/13)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 12/2013 (22/03/13)

"There is a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot." 
Stephen Wright

  • Southern African 2013 estimate

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 11/2013 (15/03/13)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 11/2013 (15/03/13)

"I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness." 
Abraham Maslow

  • Interdependence
  • Agri-Hub
  • Social compact

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 10/2013 (08/03/13)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 10/2013 (08/03/13)

"I don’t care what is written about me as long as it is not true."  Dorothy Parker

  • Why reward anarchy?
  • Grower advisory Citrus Black Spot (CBS)
  • Shipping rates
  • AgriBEE codes and BEE certification

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 09/2013 (01/03/13)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 09/2013 (01/03/13)

"If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own."  Socrates

  • CBS and the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC)
  • SIZA

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 08/2013 (22/02/13)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 08/2013 (22/02/13)

"Rushing is not important, making sure is."  African Proverb

  • Grower Roadshows
  • Costs of export citrus

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 07/2013 (15/02/13)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 07/2013 (15/02/13)

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."  Samuel Johnson

  • Grower Roadshows

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 06/2013 (08/02/13)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 06/2013 (08/02/13)

"The trouble with simplification is that things are complicated. The trouble with things being complicated is that we need to simplify them."  Charles Crawford

  • Fruit Logistica

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 05/2013 (01/02/13)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 05/2013 (01/02/13)

"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change."  Charles Darwin

  • Citrus Black Spot
  • Fruit Logistica
  • Packhouse workshops and CGA Roadshows

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 04/2013 (25/01/13)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 04/2013 (25/01/13)

"There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves."  Albert Guinon

  • Citrus Black Spot
  • Labour unrest
  • Packhouse workshops and CGA Roadshows

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 03/2013 (18/01/13)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 03/2013 (18/01/13)

"Poverty is not a lack of money, but rather the lack of opportunity to make money."  Anon

  • The farmer/labour dilemma
  • Packhouse workshops and CGA Roadshows

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