As Premier Panyaza Lesufi prepares to deliver the State of the Province Address (SOPA) on Monday, 24 February 2025, ActionSA calls for a comprehensive update on the critical interventions he previously promised to address Gauteng’s growing crises.
ActionSA is deeply concerned about the dire state of the Rosettenville Clinic. The clinic is currently serving 70% foreign nationals with its limited resources.
ActionSA has uncovered yet another sickening display of government excess, this time by the Minister of Human Settlements, Mmamoloko Kubayi, her deputy, and their staff, who have burned through a staggering R16 million on travel while millions of South Africans remain homeless.
ActionSA is dismayed at the lack of proper infrastructure, ablution facilities and furniture as well as overcrowding at the Eqinisweni Secondary School, in Ivory Park, and calls for an immediate intervention from the Gauteng Department of Education.
ActionSA remains deeply concerned that, while aggravated contact crimes between October and December 2024 have shown a slight year-on-year decrease compared to 2023, South Africa remains unsafe, with rampant criminality continuing to go largely unchallenged, as crime trends upward from the previous quarter.
ActionSA can reveal that the Government of National Unity (GNU) has already squandered over R141 million on travel expenses in six months—and that’s just from half the ministries and the Deputy President.
ActionSA condemns the parochial political attack on SARS Commissioner Edward Kieswetter.
Remarks by ActionSA President Herman Mashaba in Polokwane, where we announced the merger of three parties with ActionSA.
ActionSA is deeply concerned by the GNU’s failure to table a budget. This government has once again let the people of South Africa down and is more focused on backroom politics.
Ahead of this year’s Budget Speech, Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana would do well to heed the 2,000-year-old wisdom of Roman playwright Terence: Fortes fortuna adiuvat—fortune favours the bold.
ActionSA is deeply concerned about the continued dysfunctionality and financial mismanagement in Maluti-A-Phofung Local Municipality demand urgent intervention.
The latest unemployment figures confirm what South Africans already know—our economy has stalled, with negligible GDP growth and unacceptably high unemployment.
ActionSA will write to the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC), requesting an urgent investigation into the ongoing medication shortage and related healthcare crisis unfolding across KwaZulu-Natal.
ActionSA condemns the violent and humiliating treatment of a group of young South African men, allegedly at the hands of nightclub owners and security personnel in Tshwane.
ActionSA firmly opposes any tax increases in this year’s Budget Speech unless accompanied by deep cuts to government luxuries, including Cabinet perks and redundant state functions such as Deputy Ministers.
