Following a stakeholder meeting hosted by SCOPA on 13 March 2025 and revelations of intimidation against MPAC Chairpersons and members, I would like to urge MPAC members to report any and all forms of intimidation and victimization to the South African Police Services (SAPS).
As the Gauteng Chairperson for the Standings Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA), l’m deeply concerned by the allegations of misappropriation of funds at the Dr. Knak Primary School in Alexandra and have urged the MEC for Education in Gauteng to urgently intervene.
ActionSA welcomes the launch of the Border Management and Immigration Anti-Corruption Forum as a crucial step in addressing the deep-rooted corruption plaguing the Department of Home Affairs and the Border Management Authority. For too long, corruption has compromised border security, enabled criminal syndicates, and undermined the rule of law.
ActionSA has written to the ANC Task Team negotiating the passage of the 2025/26 budget to convey that ActionSA will not support the budget.
ActionSA notes the alternative budget solutions presented to media houses this morning by the DA in the City of Tshwane.
ActionSA dismisses the KZN Health Portfolio Committee’s threats to investigate ActionSA’s KZN Provincial Chairperson, Zwakele Mncwango, as not only laughable but also an insult to residents who continue to suffer due to chronic medicine shortages.
A joint project by the Gauteng Department of Human Settlements and the City of Ekurhuleni that was supposed to deliver over 3 000 full subsidy and social housing units in Hospital View in Tembisa has been abandoned for almost five years.
Finance Minister Godongwana’s lacklustre plans to revitalise local government will not only fail to renew the hopes of residents suffering under the weight of infrastructure failure, but it also demonstrates that the promises made during President Ramaphosa’s SONA speech were merely lip service to the idea of fixing local government.
On Wednesday members of the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Police Department (EMPD) took to the streets to protest against overtime cuts, staff shortages, and a lack of essential resources.
ActionSA acknowledges the positive commitments in the 2025 Gauteng Provincial Budget, particularly in infrastructure investment, community safety, and economic revitalisation.
The current conditions that the Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department (JMPD) and Licensing Department are enduring at the Randburg Civic Centre are utterly deplorable.
ActionSA notes that the Disability Grant proposed by the Minister of Finance during the 2025/6 Budget Speech this week, has been increased from R2,190 to R2,320 per month, effective 1 April 2025.
ActionSA is proud to announce the official introduction of our Cut Cabinet Perks Bill, the first step in our Cabinet Reform Package, which will put an end to the billion-rand bloated cabinet’s rockstar lifestyles at the expense of overburdened taxpayers.
It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved Rosemary Nishebo Mangope, the Queen of Bahurutshe boo Manyane who departed this life on Saturday following a battle with cancer.
By the time you read this, we would have buried Dr. Ezrom Mathumbu, ActionSA’s Bohlabela Regional Chairperson, who died last Wednesday in a hail of assassin’s bullets as he was traveling home from doing party work.
