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pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 51/2018 (21/12/18) _2  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 51/2018 (21/12/18) _2

"A New Year’s resolution is something that goes in one year and out the next."  Anon

  • Happy New Year
  • Confirmation of 1 January implementation date for national minimum wage

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 50/2018 (14/12/18)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 50/2018 (14/12/18)

"If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength."  French proverb

  • Getting South Africans to work
  • South Africa still awaits wider access to the USA
  • CGA directors confirmed

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 49/2018 (07/12/18)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 49/2018 (07/12/18)

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..."  Charles Dickens

  • Citrus industry growth - opportunity or not
  • Break bulk shipments approved for China

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 48/2018 (30/11/18)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 48/2018 (30/11/18)

"When you blame others, you give up your power to change."  Robert Anthony

  • How good were the variety focus groups in estimating the 2018 crop?
  • Fixation

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 47/2018 (23/11/18)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 47/2018 (23/11/18)

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." 
George Bernard Shaw

  • Cartons - The start of quality assurance
  • Citrus Academy
  • CGA Citrus Summit

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 46/2018 (16/11/18)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 46/2018 (16/11/18)

"I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not followers."  Ralph Nader

  • 2018 Valencia Seasonal Review
  • Brazil

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 44/2018 (02/11/18)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 44/2018 (02/11/18)

"If Twitter, Youtube, and Google were part of my school subjects, my parents would be so proud of me."  Anon

  • 2018 Navel Seasonal Review
  • Southern African citrus exports hit 2 million tons
  • Citrus short course

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 43/2018 (26/10/18)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 43/2018 (26/10/18)

"Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful and most noble employment of man."
George Washington

  • 2018 Lemon Seasonal Review
  • DAFF Citrus Coordinating Meeting

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 42/2018 (19/10/18)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 42/2018 (19/10/18)

"If your dreams don’t scare you, they’re not big enough."  Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

  • CGA directors for 2018/19
  • Still no resolution to the high cube container transport dilemma
  • Ports regulators (PRSA) determination of the TNPA cargo tariff
  • Citrus exports top agricultural list

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 41/2018 (12/10/18)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 41/2018 (12/10/18)

"Work expands so as to fill up the time available for its completion."  Parkinson’s Law

  • Post-harvest market requirements and declarations (labelling) workshop
  • DoT agrees not to enforce regulation 224 (b) iro Transporting high cube containers after
    1 January 2019
  • CRI Technical Award 2018: Peter Stephen

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 40/2018 (05/10/18)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 40/2018 (05/10/18)

"It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea."
Nelson Mandela

  • Biosecurity Manager appointed at CRI
  • Citrus short course
  • CRI Technical Award 2018: James Warrington

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 39/2018 (28/09/18)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 39/2018 (28/09/18)

"A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind."  Albert Szent-Gyogyi

  • Research facilities return to the industry
  • CRI Technical Award 2018: Hannes de Lange

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 38/2018 (21/09/18)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 38/2018 (21/09/18)

"Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions." 
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

  • CRI Technical Award 2018

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 37/2018 (26/09/18)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 37/2018 (26/09/18)

"Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people." 
Eleanor Roosevelt.

  • Notice of CGA AGM: 26 September 2018
  • CGA Citrus Summit: 12th to 14th March 2019
  • Annual Citrus Coordinating Meeting: 24th October 2018

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 36/2018 (07/09/18)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 36/2018 (07/09/18)

"Europe is made of history, America of philosophy, Asia of prosperity, and Africa of opportunity."  Sami Leino

  • CGA logistics strategy sessions
  • Variety Focus Group meeting minutes
  • Asiafruit Logistica

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 35/2018 (31/08/18)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 35/2018 (31/08/18)

"If your goal is anything but profitability – if it’s to be big, or to grow fast, or to become a technology leader – you’ll hit problems."  Michael Porter

  • A 5-point logistics plan aligned to the northern regions export growth

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 34/2018 (24/08/18)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 34/2018 (24/08/18)

"A women is like a tea bag – you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water."  Eleanor Roosevelt

  • Women in agriculture
  • CRI Research Symposium

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 32/2018 (10/08/18)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 32/2018 (10/08/18)

"The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do." Michael Porter

  • Strategic thinking around citrus exports from Durban port is needed

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 30/2018 (03/08/18)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 30/2018 (03/08/18)

"Treat your password like a toothbrush. Don’t let other people use it and get a new one every six months."  Clifford Stoll

  • Phytclean and e-certification update

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 29/2018 (20/07/18)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 29/2018 (20/07/18)

"I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult."  Rita Rudner

  • CRI workshops
  • Sterile Insect Technology (SIT)

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 28/2018 (13/07/18)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 28/2018 (13/07/18)

"The trouble with normal is it always gets worse."  Bruce Cockburn

  • CGA survey: Expropriation Without Compensation (EWC)
  • Nicholas (Nick) Gutierrez appointed as CGA representative in the USA
  • Ohrigstad and Burgersfort
  • CGA Grower Development Company

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 27/2018 (06/07/18)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 27/2018 (06/07/18)

"The most wasted of days is one without laughter."  E.E. Cummings

  • Burgersfort and Ohrigstad growers
  • Message from this weeks Citrus Marketing Forum (CMF)
  • Preclearance inspections and cold treatment (COT) container shipments from Durban port
  • DAFF Annual Coordinating Meeting

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 26/2018 (29/06/18)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 26/2018 (29/06/18)

"Stay away from negative people. They have a problem for every solution."  Albert Einstein

  • Public hearings: Amendment to Section 25 of the Constitution
  • Mid-year Citrus Marketing Forum (CMF) meeting

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 25/2018 (22/06/18)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 25/2018 (22/06/18)

"To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity."  Nelson Mandela

  • Dam levels in citrus growing regions of South Africa

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 24/2018 (15/06/18)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 24/2018 (15/06/18)

"Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it merely had been detected."  Oscar Wilde

  • The final rule for wider access for South African citrus to USA
  • Expropriation without Compensation (EWC) review committee hearings

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 23/2018 (08/06/18)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 23/2018 (08/06/18)

"The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand." 
Frank Herbert

  • CGA media release regarding work stoppages
  • Expropriation Without Compensation (EWC) review committee hearings

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 22/2018 (01/06/18)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 22/2018 (01/06/18)

"The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand."  Frank Herbert

  • Pick me! Do your own recruitment
  • Variety Focus Groups

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 21/2018 (25/05/18)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 21/2018 (25/05/18)

"The wise speak only of what they know."  J.R.R. Tolkien

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 20/2018 (18/05/18)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 20/2018 (18/05/18)

"Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior, but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomparable. You are you, I am I."  Osho

  • 2018 Export Quality Standards have been gazetted
  • Export destinations of Southern African citrus

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 19/2018 (11/05/18)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 19/2018 (11/05/18)

"Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds that you plant." 
Robert Louis Stevenson

  • Southern African tree census

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 18/2018 (04/05/18)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 18/2018 (04/05/18)

"Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid; humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant; together they are brilliant beyond imagination."  Albert Einstein

  • Phytclean
  • Growers have your say

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 16/2018 (20/04/18)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 16/2018 (20/04/18)

"Price is what you pay. Value is what you get."  Warren Buffett

  • Expropriation Without Compensation (EWC)
  • Average export value of Southern African citrus in 2017

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 15/2018 (13/04/18)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 15/2018 (13/04/18)

"A signature always reveals a man’s character – and sometimes even his name."  Evan Esar

  • Road transportation of "High Cube" ISO containers

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 13/2018 (30/03/18)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 13/2018 (30/03/18)

"If you think you understand what I am saying, you don’t understand what I am saying." 
Alan Greenspan

  • Changes at CGA Board
  • The economics of lemons
  • Soft citrus prediction for 2018

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 11/2018 (16/03/18)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 11/2018 (16/03/18)

"When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained." 
Mark Twain

  • Indonesia
  • European Union

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 10/2018 (09/03/18)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 10/2018 (09/03/18)

"Not all those who wander are lost." J.R.R. Tolkien

  • CGA Roadshows 2018 continued

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 09/2018 (02/03/18)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 09/2018 (02/03/18)

"For a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift it with the handle."  Winston Churchill

  • CGA BEE rating
  • CGA Roadshows 2018

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 08/2018 (23/02/18)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 08/2018 (23/02/18)

"Agriculture presents one of the greatest opportunities to significantly grow our economy and create jobs."  Cyril Ramaphosa

  • Doubled-edged sword
  • CGA Roadshows 2018

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 07/2018 (16/02/18)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 07/2018 (16/02/18)

"Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food."  Hippocrates

  • SIZA

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 06/2018 (09/02/18)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 06/2018 (09/02/18)

"The Berlin Wall has now been down for as long as it stood dividing its city, with 10,316 days having elapsed since the barrier was pulled down by the German capital’s inhabitants."

  • Fruit Logistica Berlin
  • Southern Hemisphere Association of Fresh Fruit Exporters (SHAFFE)

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 05/2018 (02/02/18)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 05/2018 (02/02/18)

"Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face."  Victor Hugo

  • Fruit Logistica Berlin
  • Africa arises as orange export powerhouse
  • What is expected in 2018

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 04/2018 (26/01/18)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 04/2018 (26/01/18)

"Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped."  Elbert Hubbard

  • FCM Management System (FMS)
  • DP World Maputo makes aggressive move to lure in (citrus) container business

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 03/2018 (19/01/18)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 03/2018 (19/01/18)

"If your dreams don’t scare you, they’re not big enough."  Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

  • CGA Directors for 2018/19
  • Still no resolution to the high cube container transport dilemma
  • Ports regulators (PRSA) determination of the TNPA cargo tariff
  • Citrus exports top agricultural list

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 02/2018 (12/01/18)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 02/2018 (12/01/18)

"Meetings: where minutes are kept and hours are lost."  Anon

  • CGA Grower Roadshows 2018
  • Important dates in 2018

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 01/2018 (05/01/18)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 01/2018 (05/01/18)

"No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other."  Jascha Heifetz

  • Orange review
  • Long-term changes
  • Orange shipping 2017

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