The following speech was delivered by Herman Mashaba, President of ActionSA, at the German-African Conference of Parliamentarians in Berlin, Germany.

ActionSA’s Senate has made two key leadership appointments deemed essential to the 2024 campaign.

We are pleased to announce that John Moodey, who has served as ActionSA Gauteng Provincial Chairperson since October 2020 after the Party’s official launch in August of the same year, will now take up the role of National Director of Operations.

Yesterday, ActionSA registered the results of its first by-election, this one taking place in Ward 96 in Tshwane. The outcome of the by-election can be read below.

ActionSA is pleased to publicly announce that following Tshwane North College SRC Elections victory in 4 out of 6 campuses, ActionSA Students’ Chapter has now won President General of all 6 campuses.

It is a shame that with the hapless ANC led coalition against the ropes, today at a sitting of the Nelson Mandela Bay municipal council, the Democratic Alliance boycotted the meeting which was called to vote on a motion of no confidence against the Mayor of the municipality.

Today I am pleased to announce that Michael Shackleton, the DA’s Gauteng North Regional Deputy Chairperson, has resigned from the Democratic Alliance to join ActionSA.

Following the publication of the draft regulations of the National Health Act, ActionSA has given instruction to its legal team to prepare for an urgent High Court review should these regulations be made final in their present form.

This afternoon the Democratic Alliance (DA) stooped to a new low in releasing an SMS broadly which sought to manipulate the pain of the recent events in Diepsloot.

On Friday April 8th, 2022, I together with senior members of ActionSA as well as our activists will attend the court appearance of the members of the alleged passport fraud syndicate that includes Pakistani foreign nationals as well as allegedly corrupt South African Home Affairs officials at the Krugersdorp Magistrates Court.