ActionSA is heartbroken by the death of more than 70 people in the devastating building fire in Marshalltown, Johannesburg, and believes that the state should be charged with culpable homicide as the blaze could easily have been avoided.
ActionSA has deployed councillors and activists to assist the families affected by the devastating building fire in Marshalltown, Johannesburg, and we extend our sincere condolences to the families of the people killed in the inferno.
ActionSA will write to the National Director of Public Prosecutions (NDPP), Adv. Shamila Batohi, requesting her to take the nation into her confidence and to address the nation on why the R280 million Estina Dairy Farm case in Vrede, in which disgraced ANC Secretary-General, Ace Magashule, is implicated, was yesterday delayed until August 2024.
ActionSA UCT condemns the blatant contempt and disregard demonstrated by the UCT SRC President and Secretary-General.
ActionSA is pleased to announce that after a four-day Senate Strategic Planning Session, its portion of an exhaustive policy process has been concluded and is now ready for consideration at its inaugural policy conference.
The first-quarter crime statistics for the Gauteng Province, released on Tuesday, show that crime continues to spiral out of control in the province – with contact crimes up by as much as 6% – while Premier Panyaza Lesufi spends millions on gimmicks such as his crime wardens’ scheme and Nasi Ispani.
ActionSA will be supporting a motion to eradicate bucket toilets in the City of Johannesburg that will be tabled by the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) in council today, despite the EFF and ANC voting against a similar motion tabled by ActionSA in March. We are putting politics aside in service to the residents of Johannesburg.
Today, ActionSA celebrates its third birthday as a political party launched on 29 August 2020 from a live studio broadcast in the middle of a COVID-19 lockdown.
On Saturday, the 26th of August, Zintle Khobeni De Lange, Chairperson of ActionSA’s Western Cape Women’s Forum, and Matthew George, Chairperson of the Student Forum, along with other ActionSA members, took part in the Uyinene Mrwetyana Foundation’s Unity Walk.
ActionSA will formally write to both Transnet and Fidelity calling for the insourcing of all security guards after they are both alleged to have terminated the employment of more than 200 security guards some of whom had been employed there for 10 years and more.
ActionSA believes the Zimbabwean Election Commission’s declaration of the Zanu-PF President, Emmerson Mnangagwa, as the winner of last week’s national elections exemplifies how the ruling party’s “silent diplomacy” has been an abysmal failure and has instead increased the humanitarian burden on South Africa.
ActionSA is disappointed to report that the Motion of No Confidence scheduled to be heard on Thursday against Joburg Mayor, Kabelo Gwamanda, will be temporarily withdrawn.
ActionSA welcomes the decision taken to rename Nongoma Local Municipality to King Goodwill Zwelithini Local Municipality.
ActionSA has written to the Head of the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID), Dikeledi Jennifer Ntlatseng, to urgently investigate the incident where members of the South African Police Service (SAPS) are accused of brutally assaulting Barberton Senior Secondary students.
ActionSA calls for the removal of the EFF MMC for Water, Sanitation & Energy in Ekurhuleni, Cllr Leshaka Manamela, after major service delivery failures from his department have left thousands of residents across the City without power.
