The Ministry of Water and Sanitation has commended the swift and coordinated response by the City of Tshwane (CoT), the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS), and the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) to the recent typhoid fever cases reported in Hammanskraal, Bronkhorstspruit and the East of Pretoria.

Guest: Cllr Eugene Modise: Acting Executive Mayor and MMC for Finance in the City of Tshwane

 

 

Africa Update Report with Advocate Sipho Mantula, Researcher: Thabo Mbeki African School of Public & International Affairs: Unisa

5 November 2025

1.    Tanzania – Dar es Salaam

Tanzania partially restores internet access, warns against image sharing

The government in Tanzania has warned people not to share photos and videos that may cause panic as the internet slowly returns after a six-day shutdown during deadly protests that began on election day.

1. DR Kongo- North Kivu 

The AFC/M23 rebellion continues to establish a parallel judicial system in territories it controls in North Kivu, a move Kinshasa authority have condemned as illegal. The group recently inducted 378 new magistrates after a selection process, with results announced Monday evening in Goma.

3.USA- Sudan 

The United States says it is working with both the Sudanese Army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) to secure a humanitarian truce. This follows a sharp escalation in bloodshed in the conflict after RSF fighters captured the North Darfur region’s capital, al-Fashir, following an 18-month siege.

1.  In our historical archives, it was on this 5 November 1987 when the ANC stalwart and Rivonia Trialist, Govan Mbeki was released from Robben Island Prison His release followed a call for all political prisoners to be freed, as apartheid was dying. 

Upon his release the government restricted him to the magisterial district of Port Elizabeth until November 1989.

 

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• IBM announces job cuts

• 2. France investigates Chinese e-commerce platforms over alleged child pornography content 
• 3. Markets

 

 

As South Africa continues to grapple with how to make land reform more productive and sustainable, the Vumelana Advisory Fund — a non-profit that helps land reform beneficiaries use land effectively — says stronger governance within Community Property Associations (CPAs) is crucial to unlocking the full potential of restituted land.

Guest: Peter Setou: Vumelana Advisory Fund CEO

Stakeholders at the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Foot and Mouth Disease Indaba in Durban last week warned that unless urgent interventions are implemented, many farmers—particularly in rural and communal areas—could be forced out of business by the end of the year.

Guest: Mbongeni Sikhakhane: KwaZulu-Natal chairperson African Farmers Association of South Africa (Afasa)

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• New vehicle sales surge to highest level in a decade

• 2. TymeBank appoints new CEO
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• SA retailers hit the ceiling as mall space outpaces shopper spending

• 2. Manufacturing slips back into contraction as demand and exports weaken

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A high court judge has given the City of Johannesburg a two-week deadline to verify, register and allocate spaces to informal traders in the inner city.

Guest: Matron Mhlanga, one of the leaders of SA Informal Traders Association

 

 

The Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa (SERI) has hailed a recent Gauteng High Court ruling ordering the City of Johannesburg to fast-track the verification and allocation of trading stalls to informal traders. The court’s decision follows SERI’s legal action against the city for removing traders who were operating without municipal permits.

Guest: Deborah Rabuda: An Attorney at SERI and the lead attorney on the matter.

 

 

More than 62,000 people fled el-Fasher between Sunday and Wednesday after the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) seized the city — the Sudanese army’s last stronghold in Darfur — triggering what aid groups and witnesses describe as mass killings, summary executions and a rapidly worsening humanitarian catastrophe. 

Guest: Thembisa Fakude: Director at Africa Asia Dialogues