13 OCTOBER 2015 12PM

As South Africa celebrates National Nutrition Week, research shows that one in five learners in South Africa go to school on an empty stomach. **Co-operative Governance Minister, Pravin Gordan and Eastern Cape Co-operative Governance MEC, Fikile Xasa are in Queenstown to commemorate the United Nation's International Day for Disaster Reduction. **An administrator at the South African Revenue Service has testified that one of the accused in the tender rigging case in the high court in Pretoria asked her to lie about quotes she signed off on. **The authorities in the Philippines insist that a Malaysian Airlines jet, that went missing last year, had not crashed onto a remote Filipino island. SUDISHA