President Cyril Ramaphosa’s latest Cabinet reshuffle is yet another example of papering over a Government of National Unity that is out of ideas, lurching from one crisis to the next while clinging to a bloated executive of 75 Ministers and Deputy Ministers.
ActionSA strongly condemns the City of Cape Town’s decision to commit municipal funds towards the repatriation of undocumented migrants, just days after imposing a 48% increase in MyCiTi bus fares on residents already under severe cost-of-living pressure.
The Ekurhuleni Government of Local Unity has made a deliberate choice to ignore the people and protect the status quo. For months, residents have raised the alarm on illegal immigration, the hijacking of the township economy, and the collapse of law enforcement.
Today, residents of the City of Johannesburg wake up to the reality of above-inflation tariff increases coming into effect on 1 July 2026.
For years, I have said that I have unfinished business in the City of Johannesburg. Today, I say with even greater conviction that I have unfinished business not only in Johannesburg, but in South Africa.
ActionSA North West is calling for full accountability after Ramotshere Moiloa Local Municipality overspent its legal budget by more than R4.5 million, with total legal expenditure reaching R7.57 million against a budget of just R3 million.
ActionSA requests President Cyril Ramaphosa to institute an urgent investigation into explosive allegations made by former DA Leader and “outgoing” Minister of Agriculture, John Steenhuisen, regarding Resolve Communications’ alleged privileged access to DA Ministers and senior members of the Executive.
As South Africans prepare to take to the streets tomorrow, ActionSA calls on every marcher to demonstrate, through peaceful and lawful conduct, that the legitimate concerns about the sovereignty of South Africa deserve to be heard.
ActionSA notes with deep concern the threat by the Minister of Finance, Enoch Godongwana, to halt the transfer of funds to the City of Johannesburg and to invoke Section 216(2) of the Constitution.
The efforts by the opposition DA in Tshwane to sensationalise standard governance reports dealing with allegations levelled against Municipal Manager, Johann Mettler, should be called out for what it is – politricking.
The court has found Cllr Xolani Khumalo not guilty on all charges, confirming that justice has prevailed.
Following yesterday’s shambolic appearance by the Board of the National Youth Development Agency (NYDA) and the Minister in the Presidency for Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities, Sindisiwe Chikunga, before Parliament’s Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa), ActionSA will be writing to President Cyril Ramaphosa to demand urgent intervention.
On 17 June 2016, during the commemoration of the late Alexandra youth activist Japie Vilankulu, the first young person to be brutally killed by the Apartheid Police during the 1976 youth uprising.
ActionSA is seriously concerned following the City of Cape Town’s loss of its clean audit status, exposing how DA Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis is leading the city backwards.
