ActionSA welcomes the City of Johannesburg’s decision to withdraw its proposed increase to the monthly prepaid electricity surcharge in the final 2025/26 budget to be tabled on 29 May 2025.
ActionSA remains gravely concerned that while discredited narratives like “white genocide” continue to dominate some public discourse, the real war being waged in South Africa is the unrelenting war of crime against all who live in our country.
ActionSA renews its urgent call for Premier Panyaza Lesufi and MEC Jacob Mamabolo to stop playing political smoke and mirrors while residents of Emfuleni suffer the daily consequences of a collapsed municipality.
ActionSA Women’s Forum is deeply saddened and outraged by the tragic fire in Mayfair, Johannesburg, that claimed the lives of four innocent children.
Dr Nasiphi Moya and her coalition team, through their decisive actions against financial abuse and mismanagement as highlighted in the City’s six-month progress report, have once again shown South Africans that ethical and capable governance is not only possible but must be expected.
ActionSA once again raises the alarm over the surge in gang violence tearing through communities across South Africa, where ruthless gangs turn neighbourhoods into warzones, littering the streets with bullet casings and forcing innocent families to live in constant fear.
ActionSA wishes to convey its condolences to the family of Gertrude Shope and her political party, the ANC, following the passing of this respected antiapartheid fighter, trade unionist, and former president of the ANC Women’s League.
Yesterday, ActionSA’s leadership continued its oversight visits to critical service delivery sites across the City of Tshwane that are earmarked for investment in Mayor Nasiphi Moya’s first budget, which is scheduled to be voted on next week. The findings from today’s visit once again highlight that the efforts of Dr Nasiphi Moya and her coalition team are beginning to bear fruit, as the growing body of evidence points to a steady turnaround in our capital city.
ActionSA welcomes the additional R7.5 billion allocated to the South African Revenue Service (SARS) over the medium term—an investment we have long championed.
As we head into the tabling of Budget 3.0, South Africa’s unemployment crisis is spiralling out of control, and the so-called Government of National Unity (GNU) seems unable to address this crisis.
ActionSA has formally written to the Public Protector following the City of Mbombela Executive Mayor, Cllr Sibongile Makushe-Mazibuko’s, failure to provide a satisfactory and substantive response to serious allegations of political interference, nepotism, and irregularities in the municipality’s current recruitment of 300 general workers.
ActionSA is deeply concerned about the impact of underspending on service delivery in Gauteng.
ActionSA welcomes the court’s decision to dismiss Dr. Nandipha Magudumana’s appeal against her extradition from Tanzania. This ruling reaffirms that South Africa is no refuge for those who commit heinous crimes under the cloak of professional respectability. Her bid to escape accountability has failed, and she must now face the consequences of her role in the Thabo Bester escape and the murder of a young man whose family still awaits justice.
After reading Deputy Minister Buti Manamela’s article in the Daily Maverick last week, I immediately instructed my office to request a right of reply, which the publication initially granted.
ActionSA notes that the review of the 1998 White Paper on Local Government, launched today, appears set to become yet another talk shop that merely pays lip service to the President’s commitment, made in his State of the Nation Address, to reimagine local government.
