“If you live in harmony with nature you will never be poor; if you live according to what others think, you will never be rich.” Seneca

• 2022/23 European Union Orange Market

“Humour keeps us alive. Humour and food. Don’t forget food. You can go a week without laughing.” Joss Whedon

• Trade in Perishable Products

“One day you will wake up and there will be no more time to do the things you have dreamed of. Do them now.” Paulo Coelha

• Clemengold turns 20
• CRI Reasearch Symposium
• Solar as an Energy Solution

“If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.” John Maynard Keynes

• Kat River Citrus Company turns 100

“Anti-social behaviour is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists.” Nikola Tesla

• Kouga Dam spills
• World Citrus Organisation (WCO) Annual Conference
• Congratulations to Lavhengwa Nemoarani

“Knowledge isn’t free. You have to pay attention.” Prof Richard Feynman

• Springbok World Cup Winning Squads
• Solar Questionnaire
• South African Citrus Estimates

“People who are not from South Africa don’t know what this means for our country. Our country goes through a lot. I want to tell the people of South Africa, thank you so much.” Siya Kolisi

• World Champions
• Albert Coetzee takes up Industry Affairs Manager role at Citrus Growers' Association (CGA)
• Citrus Secondary Programme
• Fruit South Africa turns 10

“It’s more purposeful when you don’t do something only for yourself but when adding other people that you don’t even know or have never even met, when you start playing for others.” Siya Kolisi

• Go Bokke
• Arend Venter
• USA
• Citrus Coordinating Meeting

“Progress is impossible without change.” George Bernard Shaw

• Wonderful Citrus Grower Symposium

“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.” Abraham Lincoln

• Western Cape Department of Agriculture (WCDOA) supports fruit growers in the province
• Citrus Sustinability Forum
• Season Review: Grapefruit (all carton information in 17kg’s)
• Citrus Marketing Forum (CMF)

“The more you talk about negative things in your life, the more you call them in. Speak victory not defeat.” Joel Osteen

• Transnet SOC - A turnaround is surely imminent (Mitchell Brooke)

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” Aristotle

• Roads in Southern Africa
• Citrus Marketing Forum (CMF)

“There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.” R Heinlein

• Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) (Paul Hardman)
• Citrus Marketing Forum (CMF)

“I guess I’m just feeling September-ish…” George Sheldon

• CGA Grower Development Chamber (Paul Hardman)
• Citrus Sustainability Forum (CSF)
• Citrus Marketing Forum (CMF)

“Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.” Lao Tzu

• New Facility celebrated in Coega
• Top Twenty Fruit Producers in the World

“People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.” Isaac Asimov

• Twitter//X and Communication

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” Aristotle

• BRICS Plus
• Citrus Marketing Forum (CMF)

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.” Flannery O’Connor

• Bureau for Food and Agricultural Policy (BFAP) turns twenty
• Citrus Marketing Forum (CMF)

"Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago." Warren Buffett

• Vital Importance of Funcatonal Rail Transport for the Citrus Export Industry (Mitchell Brooke)

“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others.” Cicero

• South African Citrus Trade with BRICS

“The smallest deed is better than the grandest intention.” John Burroughs

• Woza! Citrus Academy 2023
• South African Citrus Improvement Scheme: Certified Nurseries (July 2023)

“If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.” Juan-Paul Sartre

• Private Sector Partner Announced for Durban Pier 2
• Citrus Marketing Forum

“The only thing that scares me more than space aliens is the idea that there aren’t any space aliens. We can’t be the best that creation has to offer. I pray we’re not all there is. If so, we’re in big trouble.” Ellen Degeneres

• Criminality on our roads
• Lemon tracking

“History is not there for you to like or dislike, it is there for you to learn from it. And if it offends you, even better. Because then you are less likely to repeat it. It’s not yours to erase or destroy.” Anon

• Citrus Growers' Association (CGA) appoints Chief Operating Officer (COO)
• African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) is essential

“Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.” Sidney J Harris

• Orange Heart Fruit Drive
• Service Provider Database
• Comrades Marathon: The Results (Final)

“The worst disease I can see among people today is called, entitlement. The belief that I deserve without having to earn. Here’s the truth however – you only get what you give, you reap what you sow, you get rewarded for the value you add. This goes for money and relationships” Gideon Hanekom

• Western Cape: Counting the cost of the floods
• Citrus Marketing Forum (CMF)
• Lemon Tracking
• Comrades Marathon: The Results

“In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.” Paul Harvey

• Citrus Sustainability Forum
• Tracking lemon volumes and prices in the European Union
• Comrades Marathon

“The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.” Albert Einstein

• Orange Market in European Union

“It’s not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.” Sir Edmund Hillary

• Citrus Marketing Forum (CMF) – May 2023
• Excellence in South Africa

“If you cannot explain something in simple terms, you don’t understand it.” Richard P Feynman

• South African Exports to USA, China and Russia
• Eeastern Cape production early out of the starting blocks with shipping well ligned to support the region's export (Mitchell Brooke)

“The one who thinks it cannot be done should not interrupt the one doing it.” Confucius

• Orange Heart Fruit Donations
• Maputo provides an attractive option for citrus exports from the North (Mitchell Brooke)

“Social media made y’all way to comfortable with disrespecting people and not getting punched in the face for it.” Mike Tyson

• Citrus Summit Presentation: Logistics - Road and Rail
• International Juice Conference

“The creative adult is the child who has survived.” Ursula Le Guin

• World Citrus Organisation AGM
• May Citrus Marketing Forum (CMF)

“The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.” Oscar Wilde

• El Nino: Piece by Wandile Sihlobo of AgBiz

“We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.” Christian Nestell Bovee

• Transnet gearing up for Reefer Season 2023 (Mitchell Brooke)
• Citrus Summit: Team Culture and Dynamics
• CRI Production, Integrated Pest and Disease Management Workshops

"The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.” Oscar Wilde

• CGA Board Changes
• Citrus Summit: Levers of Change to Shape the Future of the South African Citrus Industry - Tracy Davids and Kandas Cloete (BFAP)

“Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy” Isaac Newton

• CGA joins social media
• Citrus Sustainability Forum
• WCO AGM

“Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.” Plato

• Citrus Legend - Kallie Schoeman

“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.” Jimi Hendrix

• Citrus Legend - Arend Venter
• CGA Citrus Summit - Assessment

“Tough times never last, but tough people do.” Robert H Shuller

• Citrus Legend - John Purchase

“If you are filled with pride, then you will have no room for wisdom.” African Proverb

• Predicted Southern African citrsu exports reflect continued challenging operational enviornment in 2023

“Once you bid farewell to high standards and discipline you say goodbye to success.” Sir Alex Ferguson

• Jannie Spangenberg
• Citrus marketing Forum (CMF)
• CGA Citrus summit - Sold out
• Rolling blackouts

“Without a clear destination in mind, no wind can be advantageous for a sailor.” Seneca

• Citrus Marketing Forum (CMF)
• CGA Pre-summit Tour Update
• South Afrian Citrus Improvement Scheme (CIS): Certified Nurseries

“There’s only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I’ll get married again.” Clint Eastwood

• CGA Citrus Summit
• Citrus Pre-season Workshops for 2023

“Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” Warren Bennis

• CGA Directors
• CGA Citrus Summit

“In life, it is important to know when to stop arguing with people and simply let them be wrong.” Anon

• 2022 Season review: Russia

“Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.” Voltaire

• 2022 Season review: Lemons to China

“He who dares not offend cannot be honest.” Thomas Paine

• 2022 Season review: valencia