In responding to the piece, “Herman Mashaba’s ActionSA is EFF-lite in disguise”, I thought it more appropriate to respond to you.

I write this open letter to you with a heavy heart. This afternoon I had a deeply unsettling engagement with a group of cleaners and security personnel employed to service SASSA offices countrywide.

This morning, Wednesday 2 December 2020, Herman Mashaba, President of Action visited the bereaved families of the three boys who drowned in a waterlogged storm water trench in Hammanskraal.

ActionSA was shocked to learn, through a Daily Maverick article, that Sicelo Xulu remains the CEO of the South African Institute of Electrical Engineers (SAIEE).

On Friday, at the State Capture Commission, South Africans had a chance to see Johannesburg Mayor Geoff Makhubo for the man that he is.

Today’s hearings of the State Capture Commission of Inquiry have laid bare much of the cover up that has been perpetrated by Geoff Makhubo and the ANC to cover what appears to be serious corruption.

The DMRE continues to hide behind the Business Rescue Process to avoid doing anything for the former miners, while professing publicly to want to resolve this matter.

Johannesburg Mayor, Geoff Makhubo, has today been fingered by testimony given by an expert forensic investigator to the State Capture Commission in relation to alleged corruption between the City of Johannesburg and EOH.

Last week, in response to a question on Twitter, I cited a figure of 15 million undocumented foreigners in South Africa as evidence of our porous borders. It turns out that this figure was incorrect. None the less, this week our Minister of Home Affairs was forced to admit that we have a serious immigration problem. On that, at least, I hope we can all agree.