Today, ActionSA President, Herman Mashaba, the ActionSA Youth Advisory Council (YAC), and members of the Hector Pieterson and Mbuyisa Makhubu families commemorated Youth Day in Soweto – in honour of the class of 1976 who stood up against the apartheid government and laid down their lives for a free South Africa for all.

Today, ActionSA revealed 9 candidates who will contests our candidate elections in order to represent ActionSA as aspirant mayors in the coming local government elections for the metros of Johannesburg, Tshwane, and Ekurhuleni.

ActionSA is pleased by the news of further arrests made in the Lily Mine Arson case. The Mpumalanga SAPS at Low’s Creek Police Station have since informed our legal team that 5 further suspects have been arrested in this case.

ActionSA in KwaZulu Natal (KZN) has launched an unprecedented 50 branches in the province as of this past weekend. This includes branches in the eThekwini Metropolitan, Amajuba District Municipality, and on 12 June 2021, 15 new branches in iLembe District Municipality.

This past week, ActionSA President, Herman Mashaba, met with the families of Hector Pieterson and Mbuyisa Makhubu, brave young people from Sam Nzima’s iconic image of the 1976 Soweto uprising.

ActionSA’s legal team has written to the Provincial Commissioner of the South African Police Services in Mpumalanga, demanding answers as to why Kaizer Gwebu continues to be out on bail while having violated the terms of his parole.

With the easing of lockdown restrictions at the beginning of the year, I have been able to spend more time engaging with fellow South Africans in communities across Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal and the Western Cape.

ActionSA contends that political parties that are launched between national and provincial elections are prejudiced when proceeds of the MPDF are distributed to their competitors. It should be noted that political parties represented in legislatures already receive billons of rands in taxpayer funding. ActionSA does not believe that political parties should be funded by either the South African taxpayer or the IEC.

Today, I have written to the Mayor of Tshwane, Randall Williams, demanding that the City open an investigation into the R80 million salaries bungle engineered by the Democratic Alliance (DA).