ActionSA is outraged by the deceitful information given by KwaZulu-Natal’s MEC for Education Mbali Frazer during her 2023/2024 Budget Speech, where she deceived the public by claiming that good progress has been made in the National School Nutrition Programme (NSNP) and learners are getting meals, in the matter where 5400 schools in KZN were left without meals upon returning to school from the Easter Holidays.

ActionSA believes the eight municipalities which has been placed under administration by the Finance MEC Motlalepula Rosho should instead be dissolved, and fresh elections held to elect new municipal councils.

ActionSA is extremely concerned that, because of non-performance, National Treasury has stopped millions in grants at 10 Western Cape municipalities.

These are remarks made by ActionSA national leaders at the launch of party’s ground-breaking policy process in anticipation of our inaugural policy conference in September 2023.

Tony Kazadi, who was arrested in January after an intervention by ActionSA, was set to appear in the Germiston Magistrate’s court on Wednesday, 22 March, but the matter was again postponed to 28 April.

On the 17 of April, the Public Protector acknowledged ActionSA’s complaint against the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) and the South African Post Office (SAPO).

ActionSA notes with great concern that eThekwini Metro has recorded the highest tariff increases compared to other metropolitan cities for the new financial year starting on 1 July 2023.

ActionSA notes renewed calls for those responsible for the looting of the Venda Building Society (VBS) be held accountable and punished for their sins that saw hundreds of poor South Africans losing their money in what is known as the biggest bank heist in South Africa. 

ActionSA is extremely concerned that community activist Loyiso Nkohla was possibly killed for his work to reopen the railway line in Philippi, Cape Town, by groups who seek to keep the railway line closed.

ActionSA believes the postponement of the bail application of the alleged Ekurhuleni serial rapist, who is facing 145 charges including rape, kidnapping and sexual offences, highlights how the criminal justice system lets down victims of crime in South Africa.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed a new board at the SABC, which has been operating without a one for nearly six months. And now, due to pressure from South African civil society and pending legal action, the public broadcaster has a new board.

The ANC-EFF coalition of doom deliberately collapsed a City of Johannesburg Council programming committee meeting this morning where ActionSA’s motion of no confidence (MONC) in Mayor Thapelo Amad was set to be tabled when they failed to attend the meeting.

ActionSA welcomes the ruling of the Bloemfontein Magistrate’s Court that Dr Nandipha Magudumana and her co-accused, former G4S employee, Senohe Matsoara, and Teboho Lipholo be remanded in custody until their appearance for a bail hearing on 3 and 4 May 2023.

ActionSA Students’ Chapter wins big at Tshwane North College Student Representative Council (SRC) elections.

ActionSA is devastated to learn that approximately 5400 schools in the province of KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) were without food due to tender irregularities, after the Department of Education in the Province awarded a single individual a multi-million Rand National School Nutrition Programme (NSNP) tender to supply food to schools across the province, forcing learners to starve on their first day back to school upon returning from Easter Holidays.