While ActionSA welcomes the announcement by the Premier to insource security guards, cleaners, kitchen, and garden staff at new healthcare facilities, we cannot celebrate it.

ActionSA will write to the Minister of Higher Education and NSFAS, urging immediate action and a clear plan to address the increasing uncertainty surrounding the NSFAS and its funding shortfalls as universities across South Africa commence the new academic year.

Today is the first of many steps that ActionSA is going to take, hand in hand with other like-minded political parties and leaders, to build the space for the rational opposition alternative in South Africa.

ActionSA congratulates the Northern Cape Class of 2024 for their exceptional improvement in the National Senior Certificate (NSC) examinations.

ActionSA Gauteng extends warm congratulations to the outstanding Class of 2024 for their remarkable achievements in the National Senior Certificate (NSC) examinations. This significant milestone marks a moment of pride for our nation as we celebrate the dedication, resilience and hard work displayed by the learners.

ActionSA extends heartfelt congratulations to the matric class of 2024 for their remarkable achievements in the National Senior Certificate (NSC) examinations.

ActionSA cautiously welcomes the 6.9% year-on-year improvement in the NSC results, a significant increase that highlights the Class of 2024’s remarkable achievement as they also hold the distinction of achieving both the highest pass rate and number of bachelor’s passes in history.

ActionSA notes with concern recent media reports quoting senior ANC sources saying that the ANC plans to table a compromise proposal at the first Cabinet lekgotla of 2025.

ActionSA is deeply concerned about the increasing number of traffic lights that are not functioning across the province of Gauteng both in municipal and provincial roads. Over 150 traffic lights across the province are currently non-operational as of the last audit by the Gauteng Department of Roads and Transport. This issue has significantly impacted on the daily lives of Gauteng residents, leading to frustration and safety hazards, particularly during peak hours.

ActionSA demands an urgent Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) investigation into Crime Intelligence’s reckless squandering of nearly R23 million of taxpayer funds on a luxury hotel in Pretoria, with no clear operational purpose and potentially corrupt motives.

The seismic shifts that followed the 2024 General Elections have realigned South African politics in ways that no voter would have imagined much less consented to. As any scholar of the laws of gravity will tell you, for each and every action there needs to be an opposing reaction.

ActionSA can now reveal that the Finance Ministry, led by Minister Enoch Godongwana, racked up a travel bill of more than R8 million between July and November last year. Given the Finance Ministry’s mandate of ensuring fiscal prudence in government spending, these extravagant costs are a slap in the face of ordinary South Africans trying to make ends meet.

It has become common cause that South Africa has had to self-impose austerity measures in many areas of public service in recent years, following decades of wanton criminality, incompetence, and other forms of abuses of resources. This has worsened by a toxic combination of greedy, criminal South African Home Affairs and Border Officials employed at several of our country’s immigration posts.

South Africa’s largest steelmaker, ArcelorMittal SA (AMSA), announced it is shutting down its long steel business and closing its plants in Newcastle and Vereeniging. AMSA initially deferred closing down due to a potential undertaking by Transnet in early 2024; however, it was forced to close shop after the government failed to follow through.

ActionSA will write the MEC of Public Works and Infrastructure, Martin Meyer, to refer the matter relating to the dismissal of the Director of Supply Chain Management following an investigation into gross misconduct to the Hawks for a comprehensive investigation.