Wayne Mommsen

Area Extension Manager Northern Region  4 years Citrus Extension Management. 2 years Technical Laboratory experience in the Pharmaceutical industry. 14 years Integrated pest management experience in Subtropical fruit production. 4 Years Agricultural Business...

Liezl van der Linde

Event & Operations Coordinator  Appointed in 2016 as CRI’s event coordinator, 20 years experience in event management and public relations. QUALIFICATIONS Diploma in Marketing Management (IMM) Public Relations & Event...

Hannes Bester

  National Extension Manager  Total of 32 years of experience in the citrus industry: 8 years on the marketing/business side and the rest in horticultural research and in extension across comprehensive pre- and postharvest fields. QUALIFICATIONS MSc    ...

Lindo Mamba

  Research Technician 5 years postharvest research and technical experience. QUALIFICATIONS...

Muriel Rikhotso

  CIS & GTD Intern  I started working for CRI from July 2019 as a postharvest intern and later joined the CIS team from April 2021. QUALIFICATIONS MSc Agric...

Dr. Providence Moyo

  Senior Researcher : Fruit & Foliar Diseases Incl CBS Experience in grapevine pathology. Four years working on citrus fruit and foliar diseases at CRI. 13 peer reviewed publications. QUALIFICATIONS PhD...

Rochelle de Bruyn

Graft Transmissible Disease Technician  Molecular experience in the detection of citrus viruses, viroids and Liberibacters. Extraction and testing of insects for biosecurity. Shoot Tip Grafting (STG) and micrografting of citrus cultivars. Detection assay development...

Chanel Steyn

    Graft Transmissible Disease Technician  7 years of experience in citrus molecular virology. Performing disease diagnostics and technical research support in the lab. Co-authored 7 peer reviewed papers and lead author on 1 peer reviewed paper. QUALIFICATIONS BSc...

Kobus Breytenbach

Graft Transmissible Disease Technician 29 years Graft Transmissible Disease technician.17 years Citrus Improvement Scheme: Shoot tip grafting and diagnostic services   QUALIFICATIONS National Diploma  ...

Dr. Meagan van Dyk

Postharvest Researcher  Meagan studied the causal organisms and inoculum sources of olive trunk diseases and tested the efficacy of pruning wound protectants on olive trees. Her master’s degree in plant Pathology was also completed at Stellenbosch University. She...