The positive weather outlook and robust tractor sales provide sufficient comfort for us to maintain an optimistic view about the season ahead.

As human needs grow, the demand for water will simply outstrip supply. This will probably happen in the lifetime of most of my readers, and certainly in their children’s lifetime, depending on where they live.

Vital interviews to fill two vacancies at the Constitutional Court have resulted in the shortlisting of five candidates.

KwaZulu-Natal police boss Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi has told Parliament that ‘captured’ journalists who push agendas to the detriment of others should be jailed. And MPs who ‘negligently’ deal with leaked intelligence information should also spend time behind bars.

As our politics becomes more fractured, two key institutions, the NPA and SARS, are likely to come under a lot more pressure. Procedures have begun to appoint successors to the people currently running them. The challenges facing these institutions and their new leaders will be immense.

Once again painting himself as a martyr, Gary van Niekerk claimed to be the tip of the spear against corruption in Nelson Mandela Bay while suggesting that other politicians, including former mayor Retief Odendaal, were crooked.

Almost 17 years after being falsely accused of operating a ‘hit squad’ which ‘unlawfully’ murdered 28 people, former members of the Durban Organised Crime Unit are finally claiming damages from the State.