The City of Joburg stands at a defining moment in the lead up to the Local Government Elections in November 2026. Across the country, conversations about illegal immigration, crime, unemployment, service delivery failures and the rising cost of living have dominated headlines and dinner tables alike.

The people of Ekurhuleni are tired. Tired of crime, tired of drugs, and tired of a police service they no longer trust. If we are serious about taking back our city, then we must start with the institution that is meant to protect us.

ActionSA Johannesburg MMC Candidate for Finance, Mpumi Edward, demands that Thuso House be reopened immediately, after the Sheriff of the High Court reportedly attached the City of Johannesburg’s assets. This will ensure that operations continue at the City’s primary customer service walk-in centre, despite the action taken by the Sheriff, due to alleged failure to pay service providers.

ActionSA has filed formal financial misconduct charges against Rustenburg Municipal Manager, Advocate Ashmar Khuduge, after he attempted to push through a settlement that would have abandoned R203 million in recoveries and instead paid up to R55.8 million to companies whose contracts the High Court had already declared unlawful.

ActionSA Johannesburg MMC Candidate for Human Settlements, Zandile Dabula, is calling on residents to assist with protecting South Africa’s housing system by reporting suspected unlawful occupation of RDP houses by foreign nationals as they do not qualify under South African housing policies.

ActionSA is deeply concerned about the safety and well-being of learners from Manyeveni Skombantwana in the City of Mbombela, who are forced to walk more than five kilometres each day to attend the nearest primary school.

ActionSA has today written to the Speaker of the National Assembly and to the Chairpersons of every Portfolio Committee responsible for overseeing departments led by Democratic Alliance (DA) Ministers or Deputy Ministers, calling on Parliament to urgently investigate serious allegations concerning Resolve Communications’ access to members of the Executive.

ActionSA President, Herman Mashaba, paid a courtesy visit to the home of former Bafana Bafana Coach and living legend, Shakes Mashaba.

ActionSA welcomes the decision by the eThekwini Municipality to blacklist Madupha Business Enterprise, a supplier implicated by the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) in its investigation into the Phoenix Infill Housing Programme.

ActionSA has today lodged a formal complaint with the Public Protector’s office, requesting an official investigation into Resolve Communications and its dealings with GNU ministers and any corresponding decisions or actions taken by those ministers.

ActionSA welcomes the Constitutional Court’s landmark judgment, which delivers a damning indictment of the Western Cape Provincial Government and the City of Cape Town for failing to dismantle the legacy of apartheid spatial planning.

President Cyril Ramaphosa’s latest Cabinet reshuffle is yet another example of papering over a Government of National Unity that is out of ideas, lurching from one crisis to the next while clinging to a bloated executive of 75 Ministers and Deputy Ministers.

ActionSA strongly condemns the City of Cape Town’s decision to commit municipal funds towards the repatriation of undocumented migrants, just days after imposing a 48% increase in MyCiTi bus fares on residents already under severe cost-of-living pressure.

The Ekurhuleni Government of Local Unity has made a deliberate choice to ignore the people and protect the status quo. For months, residents have raised the alarm on illegal immigration, the hijacking of the township economy, and the collapse of law enforcement. 

Today, residents of the City of Johannesburg wake up to the reality of above-inflation tariff increases coming into effect on 1 July 2026.