After weeks of delays by the City of Johannesburg Speaker Colleen Makhubele, to protect the fragile ANC-EFF coalition, the council’s programming committee today put ActionSA’s Motion of No Confidence (MoNC) against Mayor Kabelo Gwamanda.
Traditional leaders and their representatives, activists and experts told ActionSA today that it should consider restoring land ownership to rural communities, undoing apartheid-era legislation, and including traditional leaders in oversight as ways to include traditional leadership in the project to fix South Africa.
ActionSA will, today, file an application in terms of the Promotion of Access to Information Act(PAIA) to get access to the South African Reserve Bank’s (SARB) report into whether President Cyril Ramaphosa’s failure to disclose the foreign currency which was stolen at his Phala Phala farm in 2020 was indeed unlawful.
ActionSA has written to Gauteng Provincial Legislature Privileges & Ethics Committee Chairperson, Nomvuyo Memory Manamela, to investigate Housing Member of the Executive Council (MEC) Lebogang Maile for his outburst after he was asked questions by a journalist.
ActionSA is consulting our legal representatives following the South African Reserve Bank’s (SARB) investigation which cleared President Cyril Ramaphosa of any wrongdoing related to whether he had to disclose the foreign currency which was stolen at his Phala Phala farm in 2020.
The recent reports on Knysna Municipality’s financial and non-financial performance are extremely concerning. In the Quarter Four Report, tabled to Council on 31 July 2023, the Executive Mayor reported that “As at 30 June 2023 the commitments still exceed the cash and cash equivalents. The cashflow position remains a critical concern.” A warning in the report regarding the current ratios stated that “urgent and immediate intervention is required to ensure that a realistic and achievable financial turnaround strategy is developed and implemented with immediate effect.”
We, the undersigned political parties, come together at a time when South Africans are desperate for hope that can only come from a new political direction for our young democracy.
The ActionSA motion brought forth to the Speaker of the eThekwini Municipality, calling for the immediate insourcing of all security personnel by the Municipality will be debated during today’s council meeting.
The ActionSA motion brought forth to the Speaker of the eThekwini Municipality, calling for the immediate insourcing of all security personnel by the Municipality will be debated during today’s council meeting.
At an ANC Workers’ Day event in Barberton, Mpumalanga, the Secretary-General of the ANC, Fikile Mbalula, in the spirit of solidarity with the workers, made lofty and cruel promises to the families of the deceased miners.
ActionSA concluded a substantial public survey that during the month of July which sought to engage the views of South Africans towards the multi-party National Convention taking place tomorrow and Thursday in Kempton Park.
ActionSA Gauteng is extremely concerned about the ongoing violent, illegal and unprotected strike action by SAMWU which is placing the lives and livelihood of workers and residents in danger.
ActionSA will write to National Treasury requesting them to invoke Section 28 of the Prevention and Combating of Corrupt Activities Act, 2004, and in doing so, blacklist companies that have abandoned Free State’s capital projects.
Tomorrow, Tuesday 15 August 2023, the eThekwini Council Meeting at the Durban International Conventional Centre (ICC) will take place and the motion which we had submitted to the Speaker of the Municipality on the call for insourcing of all security personnel at the Municipality will be debated and we are calling on all parties to support this motion.
The political parties involved in negotiating a pre-election agreement to inaugurate a new government following next year’s election are pleased to announce that the Independent South African National Civic Organisation (ISANCO) is the latest political party to join this process.
