Mooigezicht Estates is currently putting the finishing touches to a new cooling facility on the Estate in preparation for the forthcoming harvest (see photo above). This new facility has the capacity to cool and store 60 pallets of packed [...]
Above: - Mon Repos management couple Hanrick and Rachelle Minnie (centre), receiving their certificate of long service recognition from Mooigezicht Estates Chairman Stephanus Rossouw (left) and MD Francois Rossouw (right). Hanrick and Rachelle Minnie have been managing the [...]
Francois Rossouw Jr. recently returned from his three month internship at IFG grape breeders in California. As the post of production manager at Eilandia recently became available, Francois has been appointed as the production manager on this production unit. [...]
One of the main sources of our surface water supply is the Roode Elsberg Dam in the Hex River mountains. On 12 September a group of Mooigezicht Estates management and staff members visited the dam to celebrate and give [...]
Above: Angelique (left) is pictured with her mom Petro Swarts. At the start of 2017 the management of Mooigezicht Estates undertook to sponsor the tertiary education studies of the top matriculant achiever for the year per school from two [...]
As our region is in the grip of a multi-year drought and our water supplies will be reduced for our forthcoming production season, Mooigezicht Estates is currently implementing a thorough and proactive water saving strategy in order to manage [...]
Above: Mooigezicht Directors Guillaume Rossouw, Nico Verster, Stephanus Rossouw (Chairman) and Francois Rossouw (MD) celebrating the milestone of this season’s bountiful harvest. The 2017 final harvest volumes have been the highest Mooigezicht Estates has ever achieved and this also [...]
Above: Gareth (centre left) and Max (centre right) with Ian (left) and Nadia (right) Prins in the pack house admiring our beautiful grapes. In Late January Mooigezicht Estates received a visit from Great Fruit Adventurer travellers Max MacGillivray and [...]
Results of our SIZA Ethical Audit: ZERO % non-compliance! During October Mooigezicht Estates completed the SIZA (Sustainability Initiative South Africa) Ethical Audit. (SIZA is the universal, globally accepted South African Ethical Auditing Standard and oversees the fruit industry’s [...]
During the previous season we had installed the Soft Pro scale packing system in one of our pack houses as a trial. The trial proved very successful and more recently we successfully expanded the Soft Pro system to two [...]
