This week, Brian gives you something to think about as the new year approaches – not about the party but about the decisions you need to make.

A little while ago, we were challenged by someone on Facebook to tell good news African stories. We loved the challenge as we believe that there are so many good news stories out there and that they need to be told.

One of those stories is of Doctor Samuel Achilefu.

Achilefu has an amazing story. A young man from Nigeria who has won international awards for his groundbreaking work in cancer research.

We suggest you read this article on his virtual reality goggles that he invented before listening to our interview with Achilefu. We spoke to him on Skype and had a great chat about his beginnings, his career and what keeps him ticking every day.

We spoke to some of the people at the 2015 Master Your Passion event held at the Culinary School of Excellence.

The event was a competition where young chefs were given the opportunity to be mentored by experienced people in the field and were then given a "mystery box" challenge and cook some amazing food.

It is such a good idea to have a mentoring programme to lift up other people in South Africa and we hope that this programme grows into the future.

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Last week we went on the train trip of a lifetime.

PRASA, the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa, invited us to experience a trip on the Premier Classe train from Johannesburg to Cape Town and back. It was part of an education session and a few other bloggers and personalities were also invited on the trip.

As part of our involvement in Northcliff and the surrounds, we spoke with Ingrid Reinten, the ward councilor for Ward 89 in Johannesburg. We asked her what she does, how the community can help better their area and the process that needs to be followed. Look forward to plenty more from Ingrid in the following weeks.

We spoke with Salma, Nina and Sheela about their collaboration in eTV's new music show "Coke Studio".

Hear how they started, worked together and what they hope to achieve now that their single has hit iTunes.

Hear the song at https://cokestudio.co.za/videos/71

We spent an afternoon at the amazing 54 on Bath in Rosebank for some "Dandy Drinks". A quite sound update that we recorded there as we were enjoying sundowners.

LISOF, local fashion and retail University, hosted a charity event on Saturday to benefit local charities and non-profit organisations.

We popped in to find out what it was all about.

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We spoke with Anneke Mackensie, the marketing manager of spirits at KWV about their new Cruxland Gin.

She says that it's infused with Kalahari Truffles so we needed to find out more.