Remarks delivered by ActionSA National Chairperson, Michael Beaumont at the fourth event of the ‘Mashaba Legacy Tour.’

Yesterday, during Parliament’s ad hoc committee hearings, ActionSA’s Dereleen James MP powerfully exposed how many of the NPA’s failures stem from Shamila Batohi’s lack of leadership of this critical institution.

ActionSA welcomes the news that 248 000 jobs were created in the third quarter of this year, as indicated in Statistics South Africa’s Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) released today. 

ActionSA can reveal that South Africa’s 43 redundant Deputy Ministers alone cost taxpayers over R500 million each year, while the combined cost of Ministers and Deputy Ministers exceeds R3 billion annually.

ActionSA welcomes the Public Protector’s Report No. 21 of 2025/26, which found Premier Panyaza Lesufi’s Crime Prevention Wardens (AmaPanyaza) programme to be unlawful, irregular, and unconstitutional.

ActionSA condemns the Democratic Alliance’s latest statement as a blatant and deliberate lie intended to mislead the public and smear the Executive Mayor of Tshwane.

Earlier today, ActionSA’s Mayoral Candidate for Ekurhuleni, Xolani Khumalo, responded to community
appeals and personally apprehended and handed over to the police a drug dealer who had been
selling drug-laced baked goods to minors in Etwatwa.

ActionSA can reveal, through official parliamentary replies from the Minister of Health, that government continues to permit the looting of state coffers in the wake of the Tembisa Hospital corruption scandal. 

ActionSA has written to the Mpumalanga MEC for Health, Ms. Sasekani Manzini following concerns arising from an oversight visit to the Schoemansdal Clinic in the Nkomazi Local Municipality, earlier today. While ActionSA commends the Department for providing new furniture and undertaking some improvements at the facility, the quality and functionality of several recent upgrades remain deeply concerning.

ActionSA notes the IEC’s confirmation that South Africa now has over 500 registered political parties, with more than 60 new registrations since the 2024 elections.

ActionSA has lodged an ethics complaint against Minister Gayton McKenzie following his misleading reply to our Parliamentary Question regarding the recent “Mokoena-Gate” saga, which nearly cost Bafana Bafana their place in the 2026 FIFA World Cup – their first qualification since 2002.

It is refreshing to see a political movement that doesn’t cling to power for the sake of it. In announcing the opening of nominations for the Johannesburg mayoral candidate, ActionSA has sent a clear message that this is not about one man’s ambition, but about listening to the electorate and building for the future.

ActionSA today conducted an oversight visit to Langloop Ward 25, Tembisa Section, under the Nkomazi Local Municipality, where residents have been without access to water for over a decade. Despite the presence of a ward councillor residing within the same community, families continue to live without this most basic human necessity.

ActionSA condemns the Democratic Alliance’s latest attempt to mislead residents of Tshwane about the City’s handling of reported typhoid cases.

Remarks delivered by ActionSA National Chairperson Michael Beaumont at the ‘Mashaba Legacy Tour’ event held at Princess Clinic in Roodepoort.