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pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 51/2020 (18/12/20)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 51/2020 (18/12/20)

"The best way to predict the future is to create it."  Peter Drucker

  • What could go wrong
  • Packaging work group
  • World Citrus Organisation (WCO) December meeting

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 50/2020 (11/12/20)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 50/2020 (11/12/20)

"Do not put off till tomorrow what can be put off till day-after-tomorrow just as well."  Mark Twain

  • Multiply your time
  • Berries ZA joins Fruit South Africa

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 49/2020 (04/12/20)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 49/2020 (04/12/20)

"North Korea has declared its own time zone that they are calling “Pyongyang Time”, and set their clocks back half an hour. So if it’s say, 11h40 here now in New York, in North Korea it’s still 1925."  Jimmy Fallon

  • John Edmonds
  • Southern Hemisphere Association of Fresh Fruit Exporters (SHAFFE) December meeting

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 48/2020 (27/11/20)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 48/2020 (27/11/20)

"I’ve been clear that Brexit means Brexit."  Theresa May

  • Brexit
  • Confronting Climate Change (CCC)
  • Post season phyto roadshow

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 47/2020 (20/11/20)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 47/2020 (20/11/20)

"Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet."  Bob Marley

  • Soft citrus season review
  • Post season phyto roadshow

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 46/2020 (13/11/20)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 46/2020 (13/11/20)

"A jury consists of 12 persons chosen to decide who has the best lawyer."  Robert Frost

  • CGA Citrus Summit
  • DALRRD Annual Citrus Coordinating Meeting
  • World Citrus Organisation Global Citrus Congress: Where did over 1, 200 delegates come from?

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 45/2020 (06/11/20)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 45/2020 (06/11/20)

"Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality."  Jules De Gaultier

  • Citrus Academy short courses are coming back
  • Global Citrus Congress

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 44/2020 (30/10/20)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 44/2020 (30/10/20)

"A grapefruit is just a lemon that saw an opportunity and took advantage of it."  Oscar Wilde

  • Grapefruit review 2020

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 43/2020 (23/10/20)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 43/2020 (23/10/20)

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."  Thomas Edison

  • Global Leadership Summit (GLS)
  • Citrus Marketing Forum

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 42/2020 (16/10/20)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 42/2020 (16/10/20)

"Either you run the day, or the day runs you."  Jim Rohn

  • Phytosaniatry citrus registrations for 2021/2 season
  • Register now: Global Citrus Congress on 5 November 2020
  • Annual DALRRD Citrus Coordinating Meeting
  • Packed and shipped

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 41/2020 (09/10/20)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 41/2020 (09/10/20)

"Vision without action is a day dream, Action without vision is a nightmare."  Japanese Proverb

  • Milestones achieved in 2020 amidst COVID-19 regulation and key learnings

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 40/2020 (02/10/20)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 40/2020 (02/10/20)

"I’d rather argue against a hundred idiots, than have one agree with me."  Winston Churchill

  • DALRRD Annual Citrus Coordinating Meeting
  • Brexit date approaching
  • Spanish 2020/21 lemon and grapefruit crop
  • South African Fruit Journal / HarvestSA

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 39/2020 (25/09/20)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 39/2020 (25/09/20)

"To encourage a greater sense of responsibility in others, emphasise the anticipation of
accomplishment, not the penalties for failure."  Roger Crawford

  • Farewell to Liane Esch
  • Dam levels in citrus regions in South Africa

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 38/2020 (18/09/20)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 38/2020 (18/09/20)

"A ship is always safe at shore, but that is not what it is built for."  Albert Einstein

  • Address to transport labour unions and transnet

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 37/2020 (11/09/20)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 37/2020 (11/09/20)

"Our world is not divided by race, color, gender or religion. Our world is divided into wise people and fools. And fools divide themselves by race, color, gender and religion."  Nelson Mandela

  • South African economy

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 36/2020 (04/09/20)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 36/2020 (04/09/20)

"The future is much like the present, only longer."  Dan Quisenberry

  • Philippines

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 35/2020 (28/08/20)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 35/2020 (28/08/20)

"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge." 
Stephen Hawking

  • This is what two million tonnes of citrus looks like

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 34/2020 (21/08/20)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 34/2020 (21/08/20)

"Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are; precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way."  Al Franken

  • CGA Annual Report

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 33/2020 (14/08/20)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 33/2020 (14/08/20)

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

  • CGA Board Meeting and Annual General Meeing
  • Orange Heart Fruit Drive donations

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 32/2020 (07/08/20)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 32/2020 (07/08/20)

"This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays."  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • To the moon and back - twice

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 31/2020 (31/07/20)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 31/2020 (31/07/20)

"Ultimately, the only wealth that can sustain any community, economy or nation is derived from the photosynthetic process - green plants growing on regenerating soil."  Allan Savory

  • Confronting Climate Change (CCC)
  • HarvestSA

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 30/2020 (24/07/20)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 30/2020 (24/07/20)

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

  • World Citrus Organisation (WCO): Going from strength to strength

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 29/2020 (17/07/20)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 29/2020 (17/07/20)

"Efficiency is doing things right, effectiveness is doing the right things."  Tim Ferris

  • Transnet Port Terminals (TPT) brings on Velile Dube as Chief Executive

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 25/2020 (10/07/20)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 25/2020 (10/07/20)

"If you call a dog’s tail a leg, how many legs does it have?” asked Abe Lincoln. When people answered five – he responded, ‘Four, because calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it one."

  • Facing some headwinds
  • CGA meets with provinical agricultural departments

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 24/2020 (03/07/20)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 24/2020 (03/07/20)

"A ship is always safe at shore but that is not what it was built for."  Albert Einstein

  • CGA increases its leadership group
  • Donations
  • Don't get complacent; don't get fatigued

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 24/2020 (26/06/20)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 24/2020 (26/06/20)

"There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what is not true; the other is to refuse to accept what is true."  Soren Kierkegaard

  • Update on shipping and port operations amongst the COVID-19 pandemic (Mitchell Brooke)

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 23/2020 (19/06/20)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 23/2020 (19/06/20)

"Agriculture is our wisest pursuit because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals and happiness."  Thomas Jefferson

  • COVID-19 Compliance Officer - your rmost valuable employee
  • Trend analysis - not in 2020

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 22/2020 (12/06/20)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 22/2020 (12/06/20)

"The third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives an increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle..."  Benjamin Franklin

  • COVID-19 workplace resources
  • COVID-19 personal responsibility

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 21/2020 (05/06/20)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 21/2020 (05/06/20)

"Do what you can, where you are, with what you have."  Teddy Roosevelt

  • World Citrus Organisation (WCO): Southern Hemisphere estimate for 2020

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 20/2020 (29/05/20)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 20/2020 (29/05/20)

"Everything is OK in the end. If it’s not OK, then it’s not the end."  Anon

  • Lessons during lockdown
  • Diesel

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 19/2020 (22/05/20)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 19/2020 (22/05/20)

"Fear is a reaction, Courage is a decision."  Winston Churchill

  • Accredited carton manufacturers
  • New appointments at CGA Grower Development Company (CGA GDC)

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 18/2020 (15/05/20)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 18/2020 (15/05/20)

"Eating more fruit and vegetables could lead to better mental well-being." World Economic Forum

  • Southern African Citrus Improvement Scheme (CIS): Certified nurseries (March 2020)
  • Dr Graham Barry
  • Citrus fruit donations

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 17/2020 (08/05/20)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 17/2020 (08/05/20)

"I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery."  Thomas Jefferson

  • Jobs fund project launched by CGA
  • COVID-19: 60% of the population will get it

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 16/2020 (01/05/20)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 16/2020 (01/05/20)

"An empty stomach is not a good political advisor."  Albert Einstein

  • CGA Statistics Book: returns 2019
  • Transport Forum comes to your office/home

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 15/2020 (24/04/20)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 15/2020 (24/04/20)

"Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words."  Carl Jung

  • CGA Statistics Book: Returns 2019
  • Market conditions: Japan

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 13/2020 (17/04/20)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 13/2020 (17/04/20)

"Hope is a risk that must be run."  Georges Bernanos

  • COVID-19: keep socially close and physically distant
  • Southern African citrus packed and shipped to safe
  • 2020 Industry Statistics Booklet
  • Workplace Best Practice Guidelines

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 12/2020 (10/04/20)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 12/2020 (10/04/20)

"Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature." 
Saint Augustine

  • Lemons fast out of the blocks
  • COVID-19 extension
  • Transport of workers

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 11/2020 (03/04/20)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 11/2020 (03/04/20)

"Sometimes there are decades where nothing happens, and sometimes there are weeks where decades happen."  Vladimir Lenin

  • COVID-19
  • COVID-19 communication

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 11/2020 (27/03/20)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 11/2020 (27/03/20)

"Desperate times call for desperate measures."  Hippocrates

  • New leadership at the helm of Citrus Growers' Association of Southern Africa
  • COVID-19 uncertain times ahead

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 10/2020 (20/03/20)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 10/2020 (20/03/20)

"It is the microbes that will have the last word."  Louis Pasteur

  • Southern African citrus estimate for the 2020 season
  • COVID-19 leads to cancelled meetings and a new way of doing business

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 09/2020 (13/03/20)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 09/2020 (13/03/20)

"When China sneezes, the world catches a cold."  Adapted

  • Corona Virus (COVID-19)

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 08/2020 (06/03/20)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 08/2020 (06/03/20)

"Non one can make you feel inferior without your consent."  Eleanor Roosevelt

  • CGA Board
  • CGA levy referendum
  • World Citrus Organisation - The rationale

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 07/2020 (28/02/20)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 07/2020 (28/02/20)

"We must consult our means rather than our wishes."  George Washington

  • Agri's Got Talent (AGT)
  • The budget speech

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 06/2020 (21/02/20)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 06/2020 (21/02/20)

"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."  Winston Churchill

  • CGA Grower Roadshows
  • CGA levy referendum

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 05/2020 (14/02/20)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 05/2020 (14/02/20)

"Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency."  Raymond Chandler

  • Fruit Logistica
  • CGA Grower Roadshows

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 04/2020 (07/02/20)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 04/2020 (07/02/20)

"Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself."  Jane Wagner

  • Phytosanitary monitoring and inspection for False Codling Moth (FCM) and Fruit Fly
  • Freek Dreyer - CGA legend awarded recognition in Russia
  • Fruit Logistica
  • CGA Grower Roadshows

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 04/2020 (31/01/20)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 04/2020 (31/01/20)

"The most important thing is to try and inspire people so they can be great at whatever they want to do."  Kobe Bryant

  • Ngqura and PE container terminals getting ready for season 2020 (Mitchell Brooke)
  • Fruit Logistica Berlin
  • CIRAD Statistics

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 03/2020 (24/01/20)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 03/2020 (24/01/20)

"The best leaders can see around corners."  Anon

  • Grower leaders
  • The enviornment
  • Climatic conditions in Spain

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 02/2020 (17/01/20)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 02/2020 (17/01/20)

"You should never go to a meeting or make a telephone call without a clear idea of what you are trying to achieve."  Steve Jobs

  • Roadshows / Workshops
  • Citrus Academy Citrus Production short course

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 01/2020 (10/01/20)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 01/2020 (10/01/20)

"Strength shows not only in the ability to persist, but the ability to start over."  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • Best wishes for 2020
  • How is 2020 looking?

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