Crime and Community Safety is a critical issue that affects us all, in Gauteng, the home of over 15 million people, whose safety and security is the responsibility of our government.
ActionSA welcomes the Public Protector’s investigation into the complaint we filed on 26 August against former Justice Minister and now hastily appointed Human Settlements Minister, Thembi Simelane, concerning allegations of corrupt transactions linked to the collapse of VBS Bank.
ActionSA Gauteng welcomes the notable reduction in crime in Gauteng, as reported by the Provincial Police Commissioner, Lieutenant Tommy Mthombeni.
ActionSA is extremely disappointed at the glaring failures of the Gauteng Department of Roads and Transport (DRT) in the 2023/2024 fiscal year.
The fact that the Department spent R61,313,517,000 (98.1%) of the R62,502,360,000 allocated budget tor the 2023/24 tinancial year, underspending R1,188,843,000 (1.9%) in a province besieged by numerous health constraints is deeply concerning.
ActionSA rejects President Ramaphosa’s last-ditch cowardly Cabinet reshuffle, appointing the disgraced Minister Thembi Simelane as Minister of Human Settlements amid increasing pressure over mounting allegations of corruption that have rendered her continued leadership of the justice department wholly untenable.
The Western Cape Department of Education (WCED) and SITA are behaving like Pontius Pilate – indecisive, dismissive, and unwilling to act on blatant corruption.
ActionSA is deeply disappointed by the response of the MEC of Education regarding the recent ban on registered vendors in Gauteng schools. For two weeks, these vendors, many of whom are elderly women striving to earn a living, were unfairly prevented and banned from selling food due to a food poisoning incident unrelated to them.
Today’s third-quarter GDP numbers reveal that agriculture and farming appear to have been abandoned by the GNU.
It seems very long ago, and many people might have forgotten this, but it was only back in 2016 when our country’s delegation to the United Nations (UN) abstained from voting in support of a resolution to appoint an independent watchdog on protection against discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
ActionSA has once again written to President Ramaphosa, urging him to protect the integrity of South Africa’s justice system by holding Minister Thembi Simelane accountable for mounting allegations of corruption that have made the Minister’s continued leadership of the justice department entirely untenable.
ActionSA extends its warmest welcome to the launch of Ha Bo Rena affordable student accommodation initiative by Gauteng Department of Human Settlements in Pretoria Gardens.
While we await the completion of this project, I am pleased to announce Council’s decision to write off over R600 million in water-related debt. This is a big relief to Hammanskraal residents who suffered the financial burden of paying for water they could not safely consume. I want to thank councillors for supporting this decision in the interest of social justice. We cannot expect the residents of Hammanskraal to pay for water that is unfit for consumption. Finally, I would like to share some updates on the spaza shop food safety crisis.
ActionSA is extremely concerned about the destruction that occurred at the Greenfields Estate on Wednesday, 27 November 2024. Whilst the tornado, understandably, attacked and destroyed many properties on the West Rand, the total decapacitation of Greenfields Estate was the most notable.
After years of advocating for Inner-City Rejuvenation, the City of Joburg Council has finally given the green light to ActionSA’s motion. Through this motion, the resolution taken by Council in 2018, to award 154 properties to the private sector including 37 abandoned factories earmarked for re-development, will come to fruition.
