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RSA Group Reflections September 2025
Dear friends Disintermediation has been one of the major commercial forces of the 21st century. New, digitally powered ‘platforms’ have thoroughly changed the taxi industry, supermarket businesses, restaurant trade and romance and dating – to name just a few! South...
Fresh Thymes Winter 2025
Fresh Thymes Winter 2025
Our Winter 2025 edition of Fresh Thymes is out now. In this edition: Letter from the chairperson Letter from the CEO Letter from the Commissioning Editor Juta Agritech: Agri growth, development, and community Global envy over SA’s free market trading system at...
RSA Group Reflections August 2025
RSA Group Reflections August 2025
Dear friends South Africa’s National Dialogue has suffered from the withdrawal of a number of key organisations and stakeholders in recent weeks, threatening its viability. And, despite the clear struggles in bringing different stakeholders together, questions...
RSA Group Reflections July 2025
RSA Group Reflections July 2025
Dear friends The RSA Group Stakeholder Dinner has become a real highlight of the South African fresh produce calendar, and this year’s dinner again lived up to all expectations. We received so many accolades on the night, and during the days after, it is impossible...
RSA Group Reflections June 2025
RSA Group Reflections June 2025
Dear friends I was fascinated to discover that recently in Turkey, a 5000 year old Küllüoba bread recipe has gone viral, with local consumers now lining up to taste modern interpretations of an ancient dough featuring ancestral ingredients like emmer wheat, and...
Select RSA Group Reflections May 2025
Select RSA Group Reflections May 2025
Dear friends The World Union of Wholesale Markets (WUWM) conference, held in Joburg this May, was a fascinating event, filled with an extremely wide range of global stakeholders and an impressive range of activity, and conversations. It was a generally bigger and...
RSA Group Reflections April 2025
RSA Group Reflections April 2025
Dear friends You don’t win the Currie Cup in May, they used to say, a long time ago, when May marked the start of the South African rugby season. Nowadays, of course, there is no such thing as a rugby season in South Africa. Our teams play all year round, including...
RSA Group Reflections March 2025
RSA Group Reflections March 2025
Dear friends I celebrated my 60th birthday this March. The days surrounded by family, friends and colleagues were amazing, and have already slotted very firmly into the ‘life-long memories’ category. But there was also a stark reality lurking: that disconcerting...
RSA Group Reflections February 2025
RSA Group Reflections February 2025
Dear friends South Africa’s farmers have been in the global headlines in 2025, for all sorts of reasons. I know I am not alone when I say it has been a pretty strange experience to observe how our community is being represented in the international media: very...
