The ActionSA Johannesburg Caucus has resolved to reject the City’s 2025/26 Final Budget, a fiscal plan that continues to fail the more than six million residents of our city.
In Mpumalanga, where promises of dignity, education, and healthcare are made each year in budget speeches and political campaigns, a very different reality exists on the ground.
ActionSA has written to the Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Police, Ian Cameron, following the brutal death of 11-year-old Jayden-Lee Meek, a tragedy that was entirely preventable.
ActionSA is proud to announce that both motions tabled by our MPLs- addressing the urgent need for functional traffic light infrastructure and the strengthening of the oversight powers of Members of the Provincial Legislature were unanimously adopted in today’s sitting of the Gauteng Provincial Legislature.
Once again, residents and businesses in the Sol Plaatje Municipality brace for another water shutdown—this time from May 29 to June 3, 2025. The now-standard excuse of “essential maintenance” echoes hollowly through municipal corridors. For the weary citizens of Kimberley, it no longer signals progress, but routine dysfunction dressed as diligence.
ActionSA is deeply concerned by explosive revelations that over R2.5 billion has already been spent, as part of a R7.5 billion contract, to refurbish obsolete “yellow” trains under PRASA’s so-called General Overhaul Project.
ActionSA in Emfuleni is appalled by the shocking revelations contained in the Gauteng Provincial Government’s response to a Legislature question tabled by ActionSA MPL Funzi Ngobeni.
ActionSA has written to President Ramaphosa, requesting that he dismiss the Minister of Employment and Labour, Nomakhosazana Meth, for her clear failure to arrest the deepening unemployment crisis that continues to erode hope, dignity and opportunity for millions of South Africans.
ActionSA welcomes the City of Johannesburg’s decision to withdraw its proposed increase to the monthly prepaid electricity surcharge in the final 2025/26 budget to be tabled on 29 May 2025.
ActionSA remains gravely concerned that while discredited narratives like “white genocide” continue to dominate some public discourse, the real war being waged in South Africa is the unrelenting war of crime against all who live in our country.
ActionSA renews its urgent call for Premier Panyaza Lesufi and MEC Jacob Mamabolo to stop playing political smoke and mirrors while residents of Emfuleni suffer the daily consequences of a collapsed municipality.
ActionSA Women’s Forum is deeply saddened and outraged by the tragic fire in Mayfair, Johannesburg, that claimed the lives of four innocent children.
Dr Nasiphi Moya and her coalition team, through their decisive actions against financial abuse and mismanagement as highlighted in the City’s six-month progress report, have once again shown South Africans that ethical and capable governance is not only possible but must be expected.
ActionSA once again raises the alarm over the surge in gang violence tearing through communities across South Africa, where ruthless gangs turn neighbourhoods into warzones, littering the streets with bullet casings and forcing innocent families to live in constant fear.
ActionSA wishes to convey its condolences to the family of Gertrude Shope and her political party, the ANC, following the passing of this respected antiapartheid fighter, trade unionist, and former president of the ANC Women’s League.
