ActionSA has formally written to the Member of the Mayoral Committee (MMC) for Finance, Cllr Margaret Arnolds, to demand a comprehensive report on the shocking incident involving a Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department (JMPD) officer who was recently denied critical medical attention at Milpark Hospital.
ActionSA is proud to announce the formal introduction of the Enhanced Cut Cabinet Perks Bill. This is a bold intervention aimed at slashing the bloated costs of one of the world’s largest Cabinets and bringing long-overdue oversight to the secretive Ministerial Handbook.
Today, ActionSA moved an amendment to the Municipality’s full and final settlement debt relief programme, which seeks to assist households and businesses struggling with historical municipal debt. The programme, approved by Council, will be effective from today until 30 June 2025.
ActionSA welcomes the Special Tribunal’s damning ruling ordering four ambulance companies operated by Thapelo Buthelezi to repay over R532 million in unlawful, unprocedural and unconstitutional payments made by the Free State Department of Health.
Yesterday, ActionSA took the fight for accountable, ethical and community-focused governance to the floor of the Gauteng Provincial Legislature through a series of hard-hitting questions and a powerful Member’s Statement on Rand West Municipality.
South Africa’s unemployment crisis is spiralling out of control, and the so-called Government of National Unity (GNU) remains missing in action.
ActionSA expresses deep concern over the unchecked and escalating crime in Eldorado Park, which has left residents living in constant fear and despair. Criminality—ranging from gang violence and drug peddling to police corruption—is eroding public safety and undermining confidence in law enforcement institutions meant to protect our people.
On this International Nurses Day, ActionSA pays tribute to the dedication, compassion, and professionalism of South Africa’s nurses.
In 2014, Helen Zille told South Africans not to “waste their votes on smaller parties.” A decade later, she is still singing the same tune, blaming voters for daring to support alternatives like ActionSA or independent candidates, as she did just last month after a narrow by-election loss in eThekwini.
ActionSA has written to the Minister of Mineral and Petroleum Resources, Gwede Mantashe, to renew our years-long appeal for the retrieval of the bodies of Solomon Nyirenda, Pretty Mkambule, and Yvonne Mnisi, in accordance with the Minister’s most recent undertakings.
ActionSA welcomes the arrest of Timothy Omotoso in East London and is especially pleased to learn that he will finally be deported from South Africa as he is no longer welcome in a country whose laws he has trampled and whose people he has treated with contempt.
ActionSA is not shocked by the revelation that 37% of audited Gauteng accounting officers failed lifestyle audits or were deemed high-risk, with 152 Government officials also conducting business with the State – contravening Section 8(2) of the Public Administration Management Act.
ActionSA firmly declares that Orania and Kleinfontein are not cultural enclaves but ideological fault lines.
ActionSA is deeply concerned about the worsening state of governance in our province, particularly the failure of six municipalities to submit their financial statements for auditing.
ActionSA wishes to extend its heartfelt congratulations to the global Catholic community on the election of His Holiness, Pope Leo XIV, as the 267th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church.
