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From the Desk of the CEO 2022

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pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 52/2022 (30/12/22)  Published Popular

“Progress doesn’t come from early risers - progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.” Robert E Heinlein

  • From all at CGA hoping that you had a restful break and are ready for 2023.

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 51/2022 (23/12/22)  Published Popular

“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than write for the public and have no self.” Cyril Connolly

  • Think about this as you enjoy your Christmas break

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 50/2022 (16/12/22)  Published Popular

“What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end.” Warren Buffet

  • 2022 Season review: Mandarins

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 49/2022 (0912/22)  Published Popular

“Failure is the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” Henry Ford

  • 2022 Season review; Lemon

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 48/2022 (02/12/22)  Published Popular

“2022 Each of us has lived through some devastation, some loneliness, some weather superstorm or spiritual superstorm. When we look at each other we must say I understand, I understand because I have been there myself. We must support each other because each of us is more alike than we are unalike.” Maya Angelou

  • 2022 Season review: Grapefruit

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 47/2022 (25/11/22)  Published Popular

“Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.” George Bernard Shaw

  • Employees become sharehoulders at Mabete Citrus in Limpopo
  • Schalk Burger to share experiens at CGA Citrus Summit

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 46/2022 (18/11/22)  Published Popular

"If you can't yet do great things, do small things in a great way." Napoleon Hill

  • Remembering Stephan Kamburov - From Dr Tim Grout
  • Fresh Product exporters Forum (FPEF) announce new board for 2023
  • WCO Global Citrus Statistics

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 45/2022 (11/11/22)  Published Popular

“You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.” Robin Williams

  • CGA Citrus Summit
  • Phytosanitary Market Registrations
  • Reminder: Global Citrus Congress

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 44/2022 (04/11/22)  Published Popular

“Sometimes, I shock myself with the smart stuff I say and do. Other times, I try to get out of the car with my seatbelt on.” Anon

  • World Citrus Organisation (WCO)
  • CGA Citrus Summit 14-16 March 2023

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 43/2022 (28/10/22)  Published Popular

“We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” Aristotle

  • CGA Strategic Planning

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 42/2022 (21/10/22)  Published Popular

“A leader cannot make risk go away, but leaders can think about risk differently.” General Stanley McChrystal

  • CGA Strategic Planning
  • Global Leadership Summit (GLS 2022)
  • Citrus Sustainability Forum (CSF)

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 41/2022 (14/10/22)  Published Popular

“The strong survive, but the courageous triumph.” Michael Scott

  • Candlewood Citrus Farm in Knysna provides equity share scheme to employees

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 40/2022 (07/10/22)  Published Popular

“Progress always involves risks. You cannot run for second base and keep your foot on first.” Frederick Wilcox

  • Citrus Marketing forum (CMF) to be held on Friday, 28 October
  • Global Citrus Congres
  • CGA Citrus Summit
  • Labour strike at Transnet

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 39/2022 (30/09/22)  Published Popular

“Life is a sum of all your choices. So, what are you doing today?” Albert Camus

  • Botswana Citrus Growers join the Citrus Growers' Association of Southern Africa
  • Citrus Phytosanitary Market Registration and Tree Census

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 38/2022 (23/09/22)  Published Popular

“Change favours only the prepared mind.” Louis Pasteur

  • Russian market for South African citrus

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 37/2022 (16/09/22)  Published Popular

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” Margaret Mead

  • Bathlako Temp Co-operative, significant black owned citrus exporter in the country
  • Citrus Academy short courses

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 36/2022 (09/09/22)  Published Popular

“Around thrones the thunder rolls.” CJ Sansom

  • Citrus industry voluntarily closes export of valencias to EU to mitigate CBS risk

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 35/2022 (02/09/22)  Published Popular

“Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.”
Eleanor Roosevelt

  • Citrus Research International (CRI) Biennial Citrus Research Symposium

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 34/2022 (26/08/22)  Published Popular

“But the cavalry arrived only in the movies.” Stephen King

  • South Africa's competition with domestic orange producers in Europe

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 33/2022 (19/08/22)  Published Popular

“The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.” Joseph Conrad

  • Grower Registration
  • Citrus Sustainability Forum

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 32/2022 (12/08/22)  Published Popular

“Despite all our accomplishments, we owe our existence to a six-inch layer of topsoil and the fact it rains.” Paul Harvey

  • Latest on European Union debacle
  • Paper prices increase: The hits keep on coming

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 31/2022 (05/08/22)  Published Popular

“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.” JK Rowling

  • World Citrus Organisation (WCO) goes from strength to strength

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 30/2022 (29/07/22)  Published Popular

“I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.” Charles De Gaulle

  • South African government lodges World Trade Organisation dispute

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 29/2022 (22/07/22)  Published Popular

“A man’s always got choices. Sometimes you just gotta choose the good ones.” Dr Teddy Oglethorpe [in Don’t Look Up]

  • Latest on EU and the New Measure
  • Transformation Initiatives

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 28/2022 (15/07/22)  Published Popular

“Winning isn't everything – but wanting to win is.” Vince Lombardi

  • Dr Fanie Van Vuuren
  • Update on Citrus Exports from Maputo (Mitchell Brooke)

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 27/2022 (08/07/22)  Published Popular

“The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.” Johann W von Goethe

  • EU Green Deal: Deal or no deal?

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 26/2022 (01/07/22)  Published Popular

“Here's something to think about: How come you never see a headline like 'Psychic Wins Lottery'?” Jay Leno

  • Clairvoyant or social media
  • Message from Citrus Academy

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 25/2022 (24/06/22)  Published Popular

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.” Anaïs Nin

  • Politics Trumps Science

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 24/2022 (17/06/22)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 24/2022 (17/06/22)

“Good judgement comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgement.”
Rita Mae Brown

  • Japan South Africa Business Forum

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 23/2022 (10/06/22)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 23/2022 (10/06/22)

“We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way."
George S Patton

  • China List 2022
  • Grower Registration

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 22/2022 (03/06/22)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 22/2022 (03/06/22)

“I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.” Lewis Carroll

  • Review of the Price of Diesel - Reef

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 21/2022 (27/05/22)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 21/2022 (27/05/22)

“Even the weak become strong when they are united." Friedrich von Schiller

  • CGA Grower Member Registrations
  • DTIC Confirm Support for Asia Fruit Logistica 2022 and Fruit Logistica 2023
  • Grower Presentations - Farm Level Analysis
  • Citrus Academy - Registration of Human Resource and Talent Development Managers

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 20/2022 (20/05/22)  Published Popular

"The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavour upon the business known as gambling.” Ambrose Bierce

  • Grower Presentations - Farm Level Analysis
  • Citrus Sustainability Forum (CSF)
  • Agri's Got Talent

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 19/2022 (13/05/22)  Published Popular

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” Aldous Huxley

  • Grower Indaba
  • Citrs Resource Waehouse

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 18/2022 (06/05/22)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 18/2022 (06/05/22)

“Wall Street is always too biased toward short-term profitability and biased against long-term growth.” Peter Thiel

  • In for the long term
  • CGA Statistics Book

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 17/2022 (29/04/22)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 17/2022 (29/04/22)

“Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together.” James Cash Penney

  • CGA signs MOU with Western Cape Department of Agriculture
  • Durban Port Operations returning to normal

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 16/2022 (22/04/22)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 16/2022 (22/04/22)

“Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.” Quentin Crisp

  • Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment
  • Durban Port Fully Operational

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 15/2022 (15/04/22)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 15/2022 (15/04/22)

“We long to return to normal, but normal led to this.” Ed Young

  • Rain Rain Rain
  • Fruit Logistica

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 14/2022 (08/04/22)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 14/2022 (08/04/22)

“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” Thomas A. Edison

  • 2022 Crop forecast for oranges, lemons and grapefruit
  • Important message to all Human Resource Representatives in the Citrus Industry

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 13/2022 (01/04/22)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 13/2022 (01/04/22)

“Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” Joshua J. Marine

  • Leadership changes at Citrus Growers'Association of Southern Africa

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 12/2022 (25/03/22)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 12/2022 (25/03/22)

“The day is what you make it! So why not make it a great one?” Steve Schulte

  • Closing date for applications - Economic Transformation of Black Citrus Growers Project (JF8/1388)
  • Focus on exports from Maputo Port for 2022
  • South African shipments to Ukraine
  • Packed and Shipped

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 11/2022 (18/03/22)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 11/2022 (18/03/22)

“Reality is created by the mind. We can change our reality by changing our mind.” Plato

  • Roadshow - Zimbabwe
  • Lemons fast out the blocks

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 10/2022 (11/03/22)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 10/2022 (11/03/22)

“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”
Desmond Tutu

  • The Russian Ukraine Conflict

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 09/2022 (04/03/22)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 09/2022 (04/03/22)

“I am not young enough to know everything.” Oscar Wilde

  • Northern Regions visited in 2nd week of CGA Grower Roadshows
  • The Russian Ukraine conflict

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 08/2022 (25/02/22)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 08/2022 (25/02/22)

“Communication is not about saying what we think. Communication is about ensuring others hear what we mean.” Simon Sinek

  • CGA Grower Roadshows move north
  • New labelling requirements in the EU

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 07/2022 (18/02/22)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 07/2022 (18/02/22)

“Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.” Floyd Dell

  • Growers - It is time to "kuier"
  • 2022 Season - Grasp opportunities and face challenges

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 06/2022 (11/02/22)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 06/2022 (11/02/22)

“Trying times need courage and resilience. Our strength as a people is not tested during the best of times.” Thabo Mbeki

  • State of the Nation Address (SONA)

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 05/2022 (04/02/22)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 05/2022 (04/02/22)

“The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.”
John Kenneth Galbraith

  • CGA Directors
  • CGA Roadshows
  • 2021 Citrus Tree Census

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 04/2022 (28/01/22)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 04/2022 (28/01/22)

“The expert in anything was once a beginner.” Helen Hayes

  • CGA Roadshows 2022
  • Citrus Sustainaibility Forum of Southern Africa

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 03/2022 (21/01/22)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 03/2022 (21/01/22)

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

  • Logistics and shipping set to be serious impediment in 2022
  • BRICS

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