The latest developments surrounding calls for the resignation of Johannesburg MMC for Community Development, Thapelo Amad, are about far more than the future of one political office-bearer. They expose a deeper crisis that has come to define governance in South Africa’s economic heartland.
ActionSA welcomes a ruling by the Labour Court which struck down an attempt by Tshwane municipal officials, implicated by investigations into the Rooiwal tender award to Edwin Sodi, to halt disciplinary proceedings against them.
ActionSA Joburg Mayoral Candidate, Herman Mashaba, conducted an oversight of the electrification project at Shalazile Informal Settlement in Denver.
ActionSA has written to the Executive Mayor of the City of Mbombela Local Municipality following the municipality’s continued failure to complete and commission two boreholes in Hlalakahle Trust, eNsikazi, leaving residents without reliable access to clean and safe drinking water.
ActionSA can reveal that the Department of Sport, Arts and Culture spent almost R31 million on its delegation and associated programmes linked to the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
ActionSA has launched a full probe into Resolve Communications’ client, UPL South Africa’s recent R17 billion infrastructure deal involving Infrastructure South Africa, an entity of the Department of Public Works and Infrastructure, despite the company’s alleged central role in one of South Africa’s most devastating environmental disasters.
The City of Johannesburg’s public spaces exist for the benefit of residents, not criminal networks, unlawful occupation or the collapse of governance.
ActionSA welcomes the decision by the Gauteng Department of Human Settlements to evict unlawful occupants from government-funded housing. This reaffirms the principle that public housing must be allocated to South African citizens and in compliance with legislation.
ActionSA is deeply concerned by the Gauteng Department of Health’s misplaced human resource priorities.
Few issues generate as much frustration among Johannesburg residents as the City’s billing system.
