Recently, during the Mpumalanga Investment and Mining Conference, Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa promised that load reduction in Mpumalanga would come to an end within the next 12 months.
After nearly two years of challenging the ANC’s debt settlement agreement with Ezulweni Investments, ActionSA has now obtained the confidential agreement and can confirm that it breaches the provisions of the Political Party Funding Act.
When I read News24’s article titled “The Eastern Cape is broken: 7 municipalities at risk of collapse within a month,” I wasn’t shocked, I was angry.
Public service is not a privilege — it’s a duty. As South Africa faces a local government crisis, It’s time to redefine what true leadership and fitness to govern really mean.
ActionSA welcomes confirmation from the Office of the Public Protector that it has formally launched an investigation into systemic maladministration by the Presidency, National Treasury and Accounting Officers for their failure to act on corruption referrals made by the Special Investigating Unit (SIU).
ActionSA notes the contradictory accounts between Parliamentary testimony and the Gauteng Provincial Government’s continued defence of its Crime Prevention Wardens (Amapanyaza).
ActionSA condemns, in the strongest possible terms, the acts of destruction and vandalism that have taken place at the University of Fort Hare, one of South Africa’s most historic and respected institutions of higher learning.
ActionSA takes note of a pledge made by ex-DA Mayor Cilliers Brink to “finish Hammanskraal clean water project and take on water tanker mafia”. Based on (the lack of) steps taken by Brink to address these urgent issues when he was DA-Mayor of the City of Tshwane from March 2023 to October 2024, this pledge carries little meaning.
ActionSA Johannesburg Caucus expresses deep concern over the blame-shifting between the Johannesburg Road Agency (JRA) and the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) regarding the sinkhole issues in parts of Roodepoort, specifically Ward 127’s Witpoortjie Estate.
ActionSA rejects the decision by Minister of Home Affairs, Dr Leon Schreiber, to once again extend the validity of the Zimbabwean Exemption Permits (ZEPs), this time until 28 May 2027.
ActionSA notes with grave concern the findings of the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) report into procurement irregularities at Tembisa Hospital, which expose the looting of more than R2 billion through fraudulent contracts and systemic abuse of public funds.
ActionSA is deeply concerned by the Auditor-General’s 2024/25 PFMA audit findings, which expose severe governance failures and financial mismanagement within the Department of Culture, Sport and Recreation (DCSR).
ActionSA Gauteng is deeply saddened and angered by the tragic and preventable death of two-year-old Ntseka Nkatshumane, who drowned after falling into an open, water-filled manhole in Khutsong.
Becoming Mayor of Johannesburg in 2016 meant confronting a depth of rot and neglect that no soul could have been prepared for, a decay that had driven the city of gold into severe distress.
ActionSA Youth Forum warmly congratulates Xolani Khumalo on his appointment as the mayoral candidate for Ekurhuleni, supported by President Herman Mashaba.
