* Gauteng education authorities are investigating the drowning incident of two learners in the Hennops river near Centurion, north of Pretoria, during a school excursion on Monday.

* The state is expected to call a new witness when the Senzo Meyiwa murder trial resumes in the high court in Pretoria.

* Newly-elected executive mayor of Ekurhuleni Metro, Nkosindiphile Xhakaza, will this afternoon swear-in the newly appointed Multi-Party Members of the Mayoral Committee.

* Concern is mounting as the new licence card printing machine has still not been secured.

* Guterres has warned that while the world was focused on escalating tensions in the Middle East, other dramatic life and death emergencies, like the one in Sudan, were being swept into the shadows.

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