The by-election reaffirms that ActionSA continues on its growth trajectory, and is the only political party in South Africa which successfully manages to win support away from the ANC. This will be crucial as we enter the important 2024 national elections.
In every single black voting district where the ANC previously dominated, ActionSA achieved double-digit growth at the expense of the ANC:
Our support at the Al Furqaan Islamic Centre has meant that ActionSA won this voting district from the ANC for the very first time – once again proving our ability to unseat the ANC in the heart of its previous strongholds.
While ActionSA managed to achieve double-digit growth in black voting districts, we achieved marginal growth in the coloured community of Ennerdale, which represented the largest voting districts. This led to the PA’s victory overall and we congratulate the PA and their candidate in this regard.
ActionSA will continue to work with our coloured communities to ensure that their voices, together with the voices of all residents, are heard and needs are addressed.
When ActionSA launched in 2020, we launched with the intention of being a political party in government. The City of Johannesburg Ward 7 by-elections are an important indicator on the road to achieving this goal, showing continued growth ahead of the 2024 elections to unseat the ANC.
The only way the ANC can be removed from national and provincial governments next year is by political parties that can win votes away from the ANC and its partners. ActionSA continues to demonstration that we have the ability to win significant support away from the ANC and EFF in rural communities across South Africa.
This by-election was the first for ActionSA in KwaZulu-Natal and a continued demonstration that ActionSA has the ability to win significant support away from the ANC and EFF in rural communities across South Africa.
ActionSA has undergone a rapid expansion throughout KwaZulu-Natal over the past few months. Campaigns have driven ActionSA’s recognition across the province and have worked to spread the message of ActionSA as a viable alternative.
This result demonstrates how, working together, the IFP and ActionSA can make significant strides in KwaZulu-Natal to win across ANC support ahead of the 2024 national and provincial elections where the ANC can be removed nationally and in KwaZulu-Natal. This result is a victory to all South Africans who seek change in next year’s election.
Limpopo’s political new kid on the block, ActionSA, emerged as the biggest winner in the three-horse highly contested Ward 10 by-election in Moletjie, Limpopo Province. Without a branch in Ward 10, ActionSA persuaded John Hlongwane to take membership of the party and stand as a candidate in the 25 January 2023 by-election.
Campaigning in an environment where three months prior the residents had not even heard of the name ActionSA, the new but definitely not small party has virtually emerged as the third biggest party in Limpopo.
Having achieved 8% and becoming the third largest party in this ward in just seven weeks, it is clear that ActionSA continues to grow and that our offer is resonating with the people of NMB.
While it is our intention to win every election we contest, we are encouraged by this significant result in the Eastern Cape.
This by-election was like no other because it was not just about the ward in which it took place, but is about the future of NMB as the leadership hangs in the balance between the ANC or themulti-party coalition.
As the City approaches 30 days water supply remaining, in the absence of any plan, the control of the City is all important to all of its residents who continue to lose faith in the ANC as evidenced by its double-digit decline in this ward.
ActionSA emerged from the by-election as the party registering the greatest growth result, with the exception of an independent candidate.
Increasing from 12.7% to 21.8% is a result that stakes ActionSA’s claim as the party that can challenge the ANC by winning across their support in sufficient numbers to challenge their political monopoly. This is a vital achievement in the effort to provide South Africans with hope that the political establishment has not previously provided.
This result also demonstrates how the ANC is collapsing. The ANC’s support in Soweto has gone from 89%, at its high-water mark, not to 31% in yesterday’s by-election. While ActionSA does not stand alone in driving this collapse, the truth is that places like Soweto no longer offer the ANC the protection of guaranteed support and will begin to drive their removal from power in 2024.
ActionSA celebrated phenomenal growth in the party’s first-ever by-election – contesting ward 96 in Tshwane.
The results in a hotly contested ward showed that ActionSA was the only party that registered growth, going from the 6.6% achieved in November 2021 to 22.3% the 5th largest party in the ward in 2021 to the 2nd largest now. The DA, VF Plus, EFF and ANC all recorded.
Of particular importance to ActionSA, was the achievement of support across all residents of the ward; a feature of our party that we celebrate, and which continues to set us apart from all other political parties. In this regard ActionSA registered 29% in the suburban areas of Doornpoort, we similarly won the Rooiwal Voting District in a predominantly black community.
