Members of the media,
Fellow Actioners,
And most importantly: you, my fellow South Africans,
Today I greet you from the Newtown Junction Piazza in the Johannesburg inner city to announce the man who will become the next premier of the Gauteng Province.
We are not playing any games today. Today we are politicking, because we know in three months’ time, this man will enter the premier offices of this province.
After thirty years of failed ANC rule, in three months this man will implement practical plans to fix the economic hub of this country. He will finally give our people a better life.
The time of political stunts such as Amapanyza, Nasi Ispani and hundreds of abandoned public projects is coming to an end.
In its place, ActionSA will bring a fresh breath across the province to fix road and water infrastructure, restore the rule of law, insource frontline government workers, deal harshly with criminals and create jobs.
Panyaza Lesufi, you must go pack your bags!
He must not seek to remove himself from the failures of the ruling party. He was there in the provincial cabinet when the Covid-19 PPE corruption took place. He was Education MEC when R431 million was spent on spraying schools with desensitizer.
He is as complicit as the rest of the ruling party by allowing our buildings to be hijacked and our school construction to be left incomplete.
We know Mr Lesufi is desperate, spending billions on advertising when he fails to deliver basic services. We know he is a disillusioned man, even proposing to buy 18 private hospitals when his own public hospitals aren’t working.
But Mr Lesufi, our message is clear: Get ready, because Action is Here!
Fellow South Africans,
When ActionSA was launched on 29 August 2020, we launched with the mission to remove the ruling party from government to start the hard work of fixing South Africa.
Born out the consultations with over 2.4 million people through the People’s Dialogue, ActionSA was mandated to provide a fresh alternative to the failed political establishment.
And in every municipality, we contested in the 2021 municipal elections, we managed to achieve our goal.
We broke the back of the ruling party in every municipality we contested, ensuring that they would never be able to have a majority in those municipalities again.
In all three municipalities we contested in Gauteng, we forced the ANC below 40% for the first time, often forcing them into opposition benches.
In Ekurhuleni, where ActionSA won 15 council seats, we managed to take the ANC from 48.6% in 2016 to just 38.2% in 2021.
In Tshwane, we took the ANC from 41.48% in 2016 to 31.77% in 2021, winning 19 council seats.
And in Johannesburg, the ANC dropped from 44.92% in 2016 to 33.22% in 2021. Today, ActionSA is the third biggest political party in the Johannesburg city council – ahead of the red berets – with 44 councillors.
This shows, that while people may be able to fill stadiums, what matters at the end of the day is the votes at the electoral box.
And we apologise to residents in municipalities we did not end up contesting. At the time, we had to prioritise resources to ensure we could take the ruling party head-on.
But now we are ready to give all the residents of Gauteng the opportunity to take action at the ballot box. We have structures in all nine municipalities in the province, and we are growing by the day.
Because, only action can fix South Africa.
This year, fellow South Africans, we are building on the momentum we achieved in 2021 to achieve our goal.
Starting in Gauteng this year, we are permanently removing the ruling party from power and kicking them into history’s dustbin.
This year we are taking action to fix Gauteng so we can fix South Africa.
Because only action can fix South Africa.
Fellow South Africans,
This year ActionSA will use Gauteng to usher in change that will spill over across South Africa.
We will lead the Gauteng government and show the people of South Africa what is possible when we remove the ruling party.
Despite only representing 1.5% of South Africa’s land, Gauteng is home to 26% of the country’s people.
If Gauteng was a country, its economy would be the seventh largest in Africa.
Therefore, what happens in Gauteng is consequential to what happens in South Africa.
If we can take action in Gauteng to remove the ruling party, it is possible for us to take action to remove the ruling party nationwide.
Because only action can fix South Africa.
In 2021, ActionSA already achieved 2.3% of the vote nationwide despite contesting in only six of South Africa’s 278 municipalities.
And in Gauteng, we achieved a whopping 10% of the electoral support despite contesting in only three of the province’s nine municipalities.
Imagine what will happen this year when we contest in all nine municipalities.
In 2019, the ANC narrowly won Gauteng with just over 50% of the vote. In 2021, it managed to scrape together only 36%.
Imagine what will happen this year when the ActionSA takes on the ruling party provincially for the first time.
This province is the birthplace of ActionSA and we will do everything possible to remove the ruling party.
There is no way the ruling party will get close to governing this province ever again.
Fellow South Africans,
This year, we have a real chance to govern Gauteng. We have a real chance to fix Gauteng this year.
We are therefore going to do everything possible to take over Gauteng.
Gauteng, get ready for Action. Underestimate us at your own peril.
And South Africans,
If we can win Gauteng, imagine what can happen in South Africa.
If we are in charge of the country’s economic engine, imagine what can happen nationwide.
Gauteng represents 24% of South Africa’s electorate. Who wins Gauteng therefore has a material impact on who wins nationally as well.
Starting in Gauteng, it is possible to bring action across South Africa.
A new chapter is being written in South Africa, and Gauteng will be key in writing its story.
It is possible to usher in democratic change in South Africa starting in Gauteng.
But it won’t be written by the political establishment. They have failed our people and handed Gauteng residents to the wolves.
Coalition governments headed by the political establishment in Gauteng have been in shambles. They chose to elect proxies instead of credible leaders.
How many mayors has Gauteng had since I left office? It’s been a conveyor belt of leadership as the political establishment reaches every compromise to desperately cling to power.
But, a third way is possible. It is possible to give ActionSA the majority to lead the Gauteng government.
ActionSA remains the only political party to state publicly we won’t work with the ruling party. We don’t believe we can work with the thieves who broke South Africa in the first place.
ActionSA will never sell out Gauteng residents. We will always do what’s best for our people.
And if voters give us the mandate, they will see the most progressive government this province has ever seen.
Imagine restoring the rule of law, reclaiming hijacked buildings, fighting drug dealers not users and creating millions of new jobs.
Fellow South Africans,
Today we are standing in Newtown in the Johannesburg inner city which at one stage represented the lifeblood of South Africa’s arts and entertainment industries.
However, because of the failures of the ruling party over the past 30 years, buildings which used to house great art and artists have become dilapidated and abandoned.
The area itself has become deteriorated as the rule of law was allowed to break down in Johannesburg.
As mayor of the City of Johannesburg, I attempted to turn around this decay by reclaiming hijacked buildings and deploying additional Johannesburg Metro Police Department Officials.
But, despite repeated attempts to get the provincial government to support the work we were doing, Lesufi and his peers turned their backs against us.
Instead of helping the people of Johannesburg live better lives, the ruling party chose politics over the needs of our people.
ActionSA is committed to changing this.
Fellow South Africans,
I have never believed in making promises I cannot keep. I don’t just want to share empty words with you. We are not a party of words, we are a party of action, with a plan to fix South Africa.
At our inaugural policy conference in September last year – where over 600 delegates from across the country voted on ActionSA policies – we became the first party that would classify the vandalising and stealing of public infrastructure as an economic sabotage crime.
A vote for ActionSA in Gauteng would therefore be a vote to restore the rule of law in the province.
Unlike Lesufi, we will not embark on public relations gimmicks but do the hard work of training security personnel to protect our most vulnerable communities.
An ActionSA government would end lawlessness by reintroducing specialised policing units and ensuring that a life in prison means a life in prison. Prisoners will no longer benefit from being in jail but will work to repay their debt to society.
Murders and rapists will no longer be allowed to walk freely in our streets.
And we won’t protect our leaders if they choose to hide Phala Phala dollars under a mattress. Under ActionSA, Ramaphosa would have a case to answer in court because crime won’t be hidden away.
We will deal harshly with drug dealers while helping to rehabilitate drug users who have fallen victim to this horrific disease.As I did as mayor of Johannesburg, we will deal with this disease which has destroyed our communities head-on by opening drug rehabilitation centres to give users the support they deserve.
And we will secure our borders, ensuring that everyone who is in South Africa has the legal documents to be here.
We believe South Africa is the melting pot of the world and has been built on the backs of migrants, but when people come here, they should do so legally and adhere to our laws once here.
We won’t give people ID books simply because they managed to bribe officials.
A vote for ActionSA is also a vote in favour of the empowerment of black South Africa.
While the ruling party’s Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Act of 2003 has enriched a select few with billions such as Ramaphosa himself, ActionSA will seek to empower all previously disadvantaged South Africans.
Ask yourself, what has the BBBEE Act done to improve the communities of Lenasia, Orange Farm, Mamelodi, Tembisa or Sharpeville?
While tenderpreneurs drive around in fancy BMWs, how have the poorest benefited from BEE?
Instead, ActionSA would implement Inclusive Economic Empowerment (IEE) which would create the Opportunity Fund which all of corporate South Africa would be compelled to contribute to.
The Opportunity Fund will benefit all previously disadvantaged by giving funding for entrepreneurs, giving bursaries, and building key infrastructure such as schools in communities long forgotten.
ActionSA wants to grow the country and create millions of new jobs for our people by liberalising labour legislation, investing in public infrastructure and removing bureaucratic hurdles, but we are unashamed about our belief in achieving social justice.
We do not believe we can simply grow the economy without undoing the harmful legacy of the ruling party and Apartheid.
That’s why we will expand social grant funding. But an ActionSA government’s success should be judged on how many jobs we create for South Africans, and therefore off of social grant dependence.
We don’t believe anyone can survive on R350 a day, and therefore needs the freedom a job offers.
A vote for ActionSA in Gauteng would be a vote in favour of insourcing frontline municipal and government workers such as security guards and cleaners, as I did as mayor of the City of Johannesburg.
And we would implement land reform by protecting private property rights and transferring abandoned and unutilised state-owned land to developers and communities who can develop well-located housing, and businesses to create jobs and farming opportunities.
Fellow South Africans,
As I have mentioned before, this year an ActionSA-led government in Gauteng is possible.
What I am saying we’d implement is not a hypothetical exercise, but stands a real chance of becoming a reality.
That is why it is important that we present to the people of Gauteng the best possible candidate to lead the march to fix this province.
This candidate was my right-hand man as mayor of the City of Johannesburg. He worked closely with me to deliver on my change mandate in the city.
Over the years I have considered him more than a colleague, but as a friend.
With his help, we managed to insource over 6000 frontline security and cleaning personnel.
With his help, we managed to reclaim hundreds of hijacked buildings and restore the rule of law.
From day one, he has been my preferred candidate to be ActionSA’s premier candidate in the province, unlike what media reports suggested.
Fellow South Africans, it gives me the distinct honour to announce Funzi Ngobeni as ActionSA’s Gauteng premier candidate.
Ngobeni is someone who is able to hit the ground running, with a track record as Development Planning MMC, finance MMC and transport MMC in the City of Johannesburg.
There is no better person I could think of leading our charge in Gauteng. He has proven himself able and ethical and therefore represents the qualities ActionSA looks for in a leader.
Ngobeni spent his early childhood being raised alongside nine siblings by his grandmother in father in Munsiesville where he slept on the floor alongside his cousins and nieces.
Having worked in the private sector for many years after completing his university diploma, he entered active politics after seeing what the ruling party did to President Thabo Mbeki.
After having served on my mayoral committee in the City of Johannesburg, Ngobeni became the third employee of the People’s Dialogue soon after we launched.
In the People’s Dialogue and then ActionSA he helped carry us to success as the National Director of Operation. He has always shown himself incredibly able to activate ground operations.
As our Gauteng Provincial chairperson, he carried forth this focus on ground operations, ensuring that ActionSA is active in all nine regions of this province.
Without a doubt, I know that he is what the residents of Gauteng need to turn around the decay of 30 years of the ruling party’s misrule.
His entire life story speaks to a man of character who is committed to improving the lives of all South Africans.
As premier, will bring action to communities long forgotten in Gauteng. There are few I know who will be as active on the ground to show residents the difference action makes.
Because, only action can fix South Africa.
Fellow South Africans,
As mentioned before, this year we have the real opportunity to change the course of Gauteng, and indeed South Africa.
We are able to restore the rule of law, secure our borders and create millions of new jobs to improve the lives of our people.
But, to achieve that goal, it will require all of us to take action this year.
Because only Action will fix SA.
We cannot do the same thing and expect different results. To achieve change, it will require us to be brave enough to try something new this year.
It will require us to take action to vote for a political alternative which has proven able to win diverse support and unite South Africans to a common mission.
For us to remove the ruling party this year, we need Gauteng to take action alongside other patriotic South Africans countrywide and vote to fix this country.
We have shown what we are able to do when we take government, but we can only implement the plans we have if we are given a chance.
For us to implement our plans, it will require all of us to take action and spread our message to as many voters in the next few weeks.
And it will require us to get as many people to vote for action this year.
Because only Action will fix SA.
Fellow South Africans, I invite you to take action with me this year to build the ideal South Africa we all dreamt of.
Because only Action will fix SA.
Mr Funzi Ngobeni, I now officially declare you as ActionSA Gauteng Premier Candidate for the upcoming elections on the 29th of May 2024.
The floor is now your address South Africa.
I thank you.
Announcing The Incoming Gauteng Premier: Practical Implementable Plans to Fix SA’s Economic Hub
Members of the media,
Fellow Actioners,
And most importantly: you, my fellow South Africans,
Today I greet you from the Newtown Junction Piazza in the Johannesburg inner city to announce the man who will become the next premier of the Gauteng Province.
We are not playing any games today. Today we are politicking, because we know in three months’ time, this man will enter the premier offices of this province.
After thirty years of failed ANC rule, in three months this man will implement practical plans to fix the economic hub of this country. He will finally give our people a better life.
The time of political stunts such as Amapanyza, Nasi Ispani and hundreds of abandoned public projects is coming to an end.
In its place, ActionSA will bring a fresh breath across the province to fix road and water infrastructure, restore the rule of law, insource frontline government workers, deal harshly with criminals and create jobs.
Panyaza Lesufi, you must go pack your bags!
He must not seek to remove himself from the failures of the ruling party. He was there in the provincial cabinet when the Covid-19 PPE corruption took place. He was Education MEC when R431 million was spent on spraying schools with desensitizer.
He is as complicit as the rest of the ruling party by allowing our buildings to be hijacked and our school construction to be left incomplete.
We know Mr Lesufi is desperate, spending billions on advertising when he fails to deliver basic services. We know he is a disillusioned man, even proposing to buy 18 private hospitals when his own public hospitals aren’t working.
But Mr Lesufi, our message is clear: Get ready, because Action is Here!
Fellow South Africans,
When ActionSA was launched on 29 August 2020, we launched with the mission to remove the ruling party from government to start the hard work of fixing South Africa.
Born out the consultations with over 2.4 million people through the People’s Dialogue, ActionSA was mandated to provide a fresh alternative to the failed political establishment.
And in every municipality, we contested in the 2021 municipal elections, we managed to achieve our goal.
We broke the back of the ruling party in every municipality we contested, ensuring that they would never be able to have a majority in those municipalities again.
In all three municipalities we contested in Gauteng, we forced the ANC below 40% for the first time, often forcing them into opposition benches.
In Ekurhuleni, where ActionSA won 15 council seats, we managed to take the ANC from 48.6% in 2016 to just 38.2% in 2021.
In Tshwane, we took the ANC from 41.48% in 2016 to 31.77% in 2021, winning 19 council seats.
And in Johannesburg, the ANC dropped from 44.92% in 2016 to 33.22% in 2021. Today, ActionSA is the third biggest political party in the Johannesburg city council – ahead of the red berets – with 44 councillors.
This shows, that while people may be able to fill stadiums, what matters at the end of the day is the votes at the electoral box.
And we apologise to residents in municipalities we did not end up contesting. At the time, we had to prioritise resources to ensure we could take the ruling party head-on.
But now we are ready to give all the residents of Gauteng the opportunity to take action at the ballot box. We have structures in all nine municipalities in the province, and we are growing by the day.
Because, only action can fix South Africa.
This year, fellow South Africans, we are building on the momentum we achieved in 2021 to achieve our goal.
Starting in Gauteng this year, we are permanently removing the ruling party from power and kicking them into history’s dustbin.
This year we are taking action to fix Gauteng so we can fix South Africa.
Because only action can fix South Africa.
Fellow South Africans,
This year ActionSA will use Gauteng to usher in change that will spill over across South Africa.
We will lead the Gauteng government and show the people of South Africa what is possible when we remove the ruling party.
Despite only representing 1.5% of South Africa’s land, Gauteng is home to 26% of the country’s people.
If Gauteng was a country, its economy would be the seventh largest in Africa.
Therefore, what happens in Gauteng is consequential to what happens in South Africa.
If we can take action in Gauteng to remove the ruling party, it is possible for us to take action to remove the ruling party nationwide.
Because only action can fix South Africa.
In 2021, ActionSA already achieved 2.3% of the vote nationwide despite contesting in only six of South Africa’s 278 municipalities.
And in Gauteng, we achieved a whopping 10% of the electoral support despite contesting in only three of the province’s nine municipalities.
Imagine what will happen this year when we contest in all nine municipalities.
In 2019, the ANC narrowly won Gauteng with just over 50% of the vote. In 2021, it managed to scrape together only 36%.
Imagine what will happen this year when the ActionSA takes on the ruling party provincially for the first time.
This province is the birthplace of ActionSA and we will do everything possible to remove the ruling party.
There is no way the ruling party will get close to governing this province ever again.
Fellow South Africans,
This year, we have a real chance to govern Gauteng. We have a real chance to fix Gauteng this year.
We are therefore going to do everything possible to take over Gauteng.
Gauteng, get ready for Action. Underestimate us at your own peril.
And South Africans,
If we can win Gauteng, imagine what can happen in South Africa.
If we are in charge of the country’s economic engine, imagine what can happen nationwide.
Gauteng represents 24% of South Africa’s electorate. Who wins Gauteng therefore has a material impact on who wins nationally as well.
Starting in Gauteng, it is possible to bring action across South Africa.
A new chapter is being written in South Africa, and Gauteng will be key in writing its story.
It is possible to usher in democratic change in South Africa starting in Gauteng.
But it won’t be written by the political establishment. They have failed our people and handed Gauteng residents to the wolves.
Coalition governments headed by the political establishment in Gauteng have been in shambles. They chose to elect proxies instead of credible leaders.
How many mayors has Gauteng had since I left office? It’s been a conveyor belt of leadership as the political establishment reaches every compromise to desperately cling to power.
But, a third way is possible. It is possible to give ActionSA the majority to lead the Gauteng government.
ActionSA remains the only political party to state publicly we won’t work with the ruling party. We don’t believe we can work with the thieves who broke South Africa in the first place.
ActionSA will never sell out Gauteng residents. We will always do what’s best for our people.
And if voters give us the mandate, they will see the most progressive government this province has ever seen.
Imagine restoring the rule of law, reclaiming hijacked buildings, fighting drug dealers not users and creating millions of new jobs.
Fellow South Africans,
Today we are standing in Newtown in the Johannesburg inner city which at one stage represented the lifeblood of South Africa’s arts and entertainment industries.
However, because of the failures of the ruling party over the past 30 years, buildings which used to house great art and artists have become dilapidated and abandoned.
The area itself has become deteriorated as the rule of law was allowed to break down in Johannesburg.
As mayor of the City of Johannesburg, I attempted to turn around this decay by reclaiming hijacked buildings and deploying additional Johannesburg Metro Police Department Officials.
But, despite repeated attempts to get the provincial government to support the work we were doing, Lesufi and his peers turned their backs against us.
Instead of helping the people of Johannesburg live better lives, the ruling party chose politics over the needs of our people.
ActionSA is committed to changing this.
Fellow South Africans,
I have never believed in making promises I cannot keep. I don’t just want to share empty words with you. We are not a party of words, we are a party of action, with a plan to fix South Africa.
At our inaugural policy conference in September last year – where over 600 delegates from across the country voted on ActionSA policies – we became the first party that would classify the vandalising and stealing of public infrastructure as an economic sabotage crime.
A vote for ActionSA in Gauteng would therefore be a vote to restore the rule of law in the province.
Unlike Lesufi, we will not embark on public relations gimmicks but do the hard work of training security personnel to protect our most vulnerable communities.
An ActionSA government would end lawlessness by reintroducing specialised policing units and ensuring that a life in prison means a life in prison. Prisoners will no longer benefit from being in jail but will work to repay their debt to society.
Murders and rapists will no longer be allowed to walk freely in our streets.
And we won’t protect our leaders if they choose to hide Phala Phala dollars under a mattress. Under ActionSA, Ramaphosa would have a case to answer in court because crime won’t be hidden away.
We will deal harshly with drug dealers while helping to rehabilitate drug users who have fallen victim to this horrific disease.As I did as mayor of Johannesburg, we will deal with this disease which has destroyed our communities head-on by opening drug rehabilitation centres to give users the support they deserve.
And we will secure our borders, ensuring that everyone who is in South Africa has the legal documents to be here.
We believe South Africa is the melting pot of the world and has been built on the backs of migrants, but when people come here, they should do so legally and adhere to our laws once here.
We won’t give people ID books simply because they managed to bribe officials.
A vote for ActionSA is also a vote in favour of the empowerment of black South Africa.
While the ruling party’s Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Act of 2003 has enriched a select few with billions such as Ramaphosa himself, ActionSA will seek to empower all previously disadvantaged South Africans.
Ask yourself, what has the BBBEE Act done to improve the communities of Lenasia, Orange Farm, Mamelodi, Tembisa or Sharpeville?
While tenderpreneurs drive around in fancy BMWs, how have the poorest benefited from BEE?
Instead, ActionSA would implement Inclusive Economic Empowerment (IEE) which would create the Opportunity Fund which all of corporate South Africa would be compelled to contribute to.
The Opportunity Fund will benefit all previously disadvantaged by giving funding for entrepreneurs, giving bursaries, and building key infrastructure such as schools in communities long forgotten.
ActionSA wants to grow the country and create millions of new jobs for our people by liberalising labour legislation, investing in public infrastructure and removing bureaucratic hurdles, but we are unashamed about our belief in achieving social justice.
We do not believe we can simply grow the economy without undoing the harmful legacy of the ruling party and Apartheid.
That’s why we will expand social grant funding. But an ActionSA government’s success should be judged on how many jobs we create for South Africans, and therefore off of social grant dependence.
We don’t believe anyone can survive on R350 a day, and therefore needs the freedom a job offers.
A vote for ActionSA in Gauteng would be a vote in favour of insourcing frontline municipal and government workers such as security guards and cleaners, as I did as mayor of the City of Johannesburg.
And we would implement land reform by protecting private property rights and transferring abandoned and unutilised state-owned land to developers and communities who can develop well-located housing, and businesses to create jobs and farming opportunities.
Fellow South Africans,
As I have mentioned before, this year an ActionSA-led government in Gauteng is possible.
What I am saying we’d implement is not a hypothetical exercise, but stands a real chance of becoming a reality.
That is why it is important that we present to the people of Gauteng the best possible candidate to lead the march to fix this province.
This candidate was my right-hand man as mayor of the City of Johannesburg. He worked closely with me to deliver on my change mandate in the city.
Over the years I have considered him more than a colleague, but as a friend.
With his help, we managed to insource over 6000 frontline security and cleaning personnel.
With his help, we managed to reclaim hundreds of hijacked buildings and restore the rule of law.
From day one, he has been my preferred candidate to be ActionSA’s premier candidate in the province, unlike what media reports suggested.
Fellow South Africans, it gives me the distinct honour to announce Funzi Ngobeni as ActionSA’s Gauteng premier candidate.
Ngobeni is someone who is able to hit the ground running, with a track record as Development Planning MMC, finance MMC and transport MMC in the City of Johannesburg.
There is no better person I could think of leading our charge in Gauteng. He has proven himself able and ethical and therefore represents the qualities ActionSA looks for in a leader.
Ngobeni spent his early childhood being raised alongside nine siblings by his grandmother in father in Munsiesville where he slept on the floor alongside his cousins and nieces.
Having worked in the private sector for many years after completing his university diploma, he entered active politics after seeing what the ruling party did to President Thabo Mbeki.
After having served on my mayoral committee in the City of Johannesburg, Ngobeni became the third employee of the People’s Dialogue soon after we launched.
In the People’s Dialogue and then ActionSA he helped carry us to success as the National Director of Operation. He has always shown himself incredibly able to activate ground operations.
As our Gauteng Provincial chairperson, he carried forth this focus on ground operations, ensuring that ActionSA is active in all nine regions of this province.
Without a doubt, I know that he is what the residents of Gauteng need to turn around the decay of 30 years of the ruling party’s misrule.
His entire life story speaks to a man of character who is committed to improving the lives of all South Africans.
As premier, will bring action to communities long forgotten in Gauteng. There are few I know who will be as active on the ground to show residents the difference action makes.
Because, only action can fix South Africa.
Fellow South Africans,
As mentioned before, this year we have the real opportunity to change the course of Gauteng, and indeed South Africa.
We are able to restore the rule of law, secure our borders and create millions of new jobs to improve the lives of our people.
But, to achieve that goal, it will require all of us to take action this year.
Because only Action will fix SA.
We cannot do the same thing and expect different results. To achieve change, it will require us to be brave enough to try something new this year.
It will require us to take action to vote for a political alternative which has proven able to win diverse support and unite South Africans to a common mission.
For us to remove the ruling party this year, we need Gauteng to take action alongside other patriotic South Africans countrywide and vote to fix this country.
We have shown what we are able to do when we take government, but we can only implement the plans we have if we are given a chance.
For us to implement our plans, it will require all of us to take action and spread our message to as many voters in the next few weeks.
And it will require us to get as many people to vote for action this year.
Because only Action will fix SA.
Fellow South Africans, I invite you to take action with me this year to build the ideal South Africa we all dreamt of.
Because only Action will fix SA.
Mr Funzi Ngobeni, I now officially declare you as ActionSA Gauteng Premier Candidate for the upcoming elections on the 29th of May 2024.
The floor is now your address South Africa.
I thank you.