The multi-party coalition has filed urgent court papers in the North Gauteng High Court against the Speaker of Council’s refusal to call council meetings to hear a motion of no confidence against himself and to adopt budgets.
It can only happen in the ANC that one tier of the same government will take another to court over matters they be able to negotiate internally as a ruling party.
ActionSA is deeply concerned that the proposed tariff increases by the eThekwini Municipality for the new financial year starting 1 July 2023 is going to place enormous financial pressures on the residents and businesses of the municipality.
Despite the protracted, obscene and voluminous litigation undertaken by Vantage Goldfields – the same management that have been found guilty of negligence in a section 72 enquiry by the Department of Minerals and Resources in 2017 – ActionSA has obtained a victory in the ongoing quest for justice.
Since the beginning of our campaign this year to assess the state of the province, where one of our priority focus was on the state of education, we have outlined numerous instances of the Department of Education infringing on the right of the learners of the Eastern Cape to a decent quality of education.
ActionSA is extremely concerned that Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana’s decision to grant Eskom an exemption from declaring its irregular and fruitless expenditure will allow the utility to hide criminality and theft at the embattled power utility.
ActionSA is concerned that the North-West Government’s underspending of its budget by as much as R1 billion rand will lead to poorer quality roads, worse healthcare provision and ultimately fewer services to the most vulnerable in the province.
On Friday 31 March 2023, eThekwini Metro Municipality finally filed its answering affidavit in ActionSA’s application to end the sewerage crisis in the metro.
More than R1.2 billion spent for construction of the new 250-bed hospital in Middelberg has been halted due to alleged corrupt elements.
ActionSA’s Senate, at its meeting on Friday 31 March 2023, approved the establishment of a Provincial Executive Committee (PEC) in the Western Cape.
