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Apple Gifting Day | 1 January 2025

Apple Gifting Day is celebrated every year on January 1, as part of the many traditional ways of marking New Year’s Day. Because apples symbolize good health, giving people apples on New Year’s Day is wishing them good health for…

Elke And Richard

A short history of CA in South Africa

By Engela Duvenage A veritable trip down memory lane – that’s what Dr Elke Crouch recently went on while preparing for her new responsibilities as Post-Harvest Physiology Research Chair in Deciduous Fruit at Stellenbosch University. She set off for the…

Louis Kriel

Fruit Export Frontrunner Passes Away

The South African fruit industry mourns the passing of Louis Kriel, one of the founders and international promoters of the South African fruit export industry. Text: Louise Brodie Louis Kriel (78), who passed away at his home in Stellenbosch on…

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