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Daily Podcast - November 05, 2025.
For Creamer Media in Johannesburg, this is the Polity Daily News Podcast.
Making headlines:
High Court judgment requires Nersa to give more time for public comment on municipal tariff applications
NA passes Bill to implement shared border control zones with neighbouring States
And, Ghana inflation slows for 10th straight month in October
The National Energy Regulator of South Africa is assessing the full impact of a High Court of South Africa judgment, which found its municipal tariff applications process was inadequate and invalid.
Civil society organisation AfriForum had brought the application, which challenged the adequacy of Nersa's consultation process.
The High Court also imposed specific timelines on Nersa processes in considering municipal tariff applications, the regulator says.
The proposed timelines include Nersa communicating the Eskom bulk tariffs to municipalities by January 31 each year and that municipalities must submit their tariff applications by March 30 each year.
The proposed timelines also require Nersa to finalise all municipal tariff applications by May 5 each year.
The National Assembly has passed the One Stop Border Post Bill, with strong support from the Democratic Alliance, with the aim of streamlining cross-border trade and improving State capability at the country's points of entry.
The Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs recommended that the NA adopt the Bill without amendments and it will now be sent to the National Council of Provinces for concurrence.
Parliament explained that the Bill aims to establish a legal framework for creating shared border posts between South Africa and its neighbouring countries.
"It provides for the development of common control zones where officials from both countries can enforce their respective national laws in a coordinated and efficient manner. These zones are intended to improve the facilitation of trade and the movement of people, while strengthening security and cooperation at ports of entry," it said.
Consumer inflation in Ghana slowed for the 10th consecutive month, falling to 8.0% year on year in October from 9.4% in September - the lowest level since June 2021, the statistics service said today.
Government statistician Alhassan Iddrisu told a press conference that food prices were driving the overall decline in inflation.
"Ghana's disinflation process is firmly under way. Price stability is returning, and key drivers that once fuelled double-digit inflation are now losing momentum," Iddrisu said.
The gold-, oil- and cocoa-producing nation in West Africa is emerging from its most severe economic crisis in decades.
Ghana's central bank now targets inflation of 8% with a margin of error of 2 percentage points either side.
That's a roundup of news making headlines today
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For Creamer Media in Johannesburg, I’m Halima Frost.

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