ActionSA cautiously welcomes the New Development Bank’s R17 billion loan for financing water and sanitation infrastructure projects. However, without a fundamental overhaul of our water infrastructure and resource management, the loan merely represents nothing more than pouring water into a leaking bucket which won’t treat deep-rooted issues of systemic inefficiencies, mismanagement, and poor maintenance that continue to undermine service delivery.

ActionSA has urgently written to the Department of Home Affairs seeking clarification on how Chidimma Adetshina’s mother, who is the principal subject of an ongoing fraud and corruption investigation, was permitted to leave South Africa and travel to Nigeria.

ActionSA expresses deep discontent and concern over the recent decision by the Zululand District Municipality to cease water provision to schools in Ulundi, including Imbilane High School, due to the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Education’s failure tosettle outstanding debts.

ActionSA wishes to extend our heartfelt appreciation to Chief Justice Raymond Zondo for his distinguished service over the past 27 years to our constitutional democracy and we celebrate his nearly three decades of upholding the rule of law and his perseverance in navigating numerous challenges which have undoubtedly left an indelible mark on our judiciary.

ActionSA remain concerned about the latest crime statistics for Q1 2024/2025, which reveal a marginal decrease in the murder rate, with 6,198 murders recorded between April and June 2024. This reduction amounting to 69 murders per day compared to 73 per day in the previous quarter, may seem encouraging at first glance. However, it is crucial to recognise that this still represents a horrifying level of violence, with nearly 3 murders occurring every hour in South Africa.

ActionSA Northern Cape continues to demonstrate the party’s unwavering commitment to social justice and community empowerment. In a recent campaign conducted in Ward 3, Homelite, Kimberley, Louw personally investigated the unfair surcharge being imposed on SASSA grant recipients by certain spaza shops, predominantly foreign-owned, when they withdraw their funds.

Yesterday, the ANC-EFF Coalition government, aided by the Democratic Alliance all adopted a report on the Feasibility Study on insourcing of Security Guards and Cleaners which seeks to further delay the implementation of insourcing.

ActionSA has noted the deliberate effort orchestrated by the Democratic Alliance (DA) to falsely accuse us of the very actions they have repeatedly demonstrated themselves to be guilty of, that being treachery, dishonesty and hypocrisy.

ActionSA notes the withdrawal of the ANC-sponsored urgent Motion of No Confidence (MONC) in the Executive Mayor of City of Tshwane in Council today.

In an effort to bolster our oversight role in the City of Johannesburg and restore a culture of accountability, two ActionSA Councillors have been elected as chairpersons of the Section 79 Finance and Environment and Infrastructure Services Department (EISD) committees, respectively.

ActionSA notes the suspension of the Ithala Bank licence by The Financial Sector Conduct Authority, following the FSCA’s determination that the Bank does not meet the financial soundness requirements for a licence operator.

For too long, society has dismissed women’s anger as irrational, but I ask: What, if not anger, should we feel in the face of the injustices that plague our nation?

ActionSA welcomes progress on waste collection in Tembisa over the weekend after our intervention in the crisis.

ActionSA has written to the MMC for Transport, Cllr Kenny Kunene, to make public the processes that were followed in appointing the new Bree Street Contractor.

ActionSA has filed an urgent Public Protector complaint against the Minister of Justice, Thembi Simelane, following revelations that during her tenure as Mayor of the Polokwane Municipality, she personally took a so-called “loan” from the same corrupt investment brokerage that facilitated the unlawful investment of R349 million from the Municipality into the now-collapsed VBS Bank. We will also write to inform President Ramaphosa of this complaint.