As the 2025 school year draws to an end, with matriculants having written their last exam and pupils in other grades awaiting their final results, South Africans are winding down in anticipation of the festive season.

Last week, the Association of Water and Sanitation Institutions in SA (AWSISA) hosted its inaugural Global South Water and Sanitation Dialogue in the City of Ekurhuleni in Gauteng.

A few days ago, billionaire entrepreneur Patrice Motsepe, addressed the SA National Editors Forum (Sanef) fundraising dinner at the Houghton Hotel in Johannesburg.

Three political parties serving in the government of national unity (GNU) — Rise Mzansi, Build One SA (Bosa) and GOOD — have joined forces and will contest the 2026 local government elections as one entity, Unite for Change.

On September 10, controversial right-wing political activist and media personality, Charlie Kirk, was assassinated while speaking at a public debate event on the Utah Valley University campus in the US.

A week ago, while driving on a busy road in Johannesburg, I witnessed something that disturbed me greatly.

August, Women’s Month, is an important month in SA’s calendar.

In the 2001 Global Corruption Report, Nobel prize laureate Rigoberta Menchú Tum made an important contribution in a section titled, The Plague of Corruption: Overcoming Impunity and Injustice.

Last Friday, a man shot dead two young women at a flat in Gqeberha’s Central before turning the gun on himself.

Just more than a week ago, KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi dropped a bombshell when he alleged that police minister Senzo Mchunu, who has since been placed on leave by President Cyril Ramaphosa, was involved in criminality.