ActionSA is alarmed by findings from an oversight visit conducted at Sarepta Old Age Home in Kuilsrivier where a facility is carrying a burden it was never designed nor adequately resourced to bear. 

There was a time when Cosmo City symbolised the future of Johannesburg. It was not another arbitrary housing project. It was proof that government could plan properly, build integrated communities and give ordinary South Africans a chance to own a home, raise a family and build a better life.

ActionSA President and Joburg Mayoral Candidate, Herman Mashaba, has written a letter to the Minister of Finance, Enoch Godongwana, recommending a technical support team to monitor National Treasury funds that will be transferred to the City of Johannesburg.

The reported power outage of the City of Johannesburg’s Call Centre, the primary platform through which residents report service delivery failures and access critical municipal assistance, is deeply concerning and wholly unacceptable.

There are moments in a nation’s history that define its moral character. Moments that reveal whether those entrusted with power truly value the lives of ordinary citizens or whether those lives become expendable once the headlines fade.

ActionSA is deeply concerned by the alarming rise in violent crime in Mkhuhlu, Mpumalanga.

ActionSA is deeply outraged by the ongoing failure, suspected cronyism, and blatant financial mismanagement surrounding the Nelson Mandela Drive Bridge project in Polokwane.

ActionSA has instructed its legal team to institute proceedings in the High Court, Gauteng Division, Pretoria to review and set aside the South African Police Service’s disciplinary findings relating to Major General Wally Rhoode and Brigadier Hennie Rekhoto, arising from their conduct during the investigation into the Phala Phala burglary.

There are few things more painful than looking into the eyes of a mother who has spent decades on a government housing waiting list while watching someone else occupy the home that was meant for her family. It is a pain I have witnessed too often. It is the pain of broken promises, stolen opportunities and a system that has, for far too long, failed the very people it was created to serve.

ActionSA has noted the Democratic Alliance’s latest press statement by Cllr Jacqui Uys attempting to blame Executive Mayor Dr Nasiphi Moya for the return to work of the City of Tshwane’s Chief Financial Officer, Mr Gareth Mnisi.

Today, ActionSA delivered a memorandum to the National Prosecuting Authority’s (NPA) Head Office in Pretoria, calling for urgent action to ensure accountability in the Lily Mine tragedy.

The latest developments surrounding calls for the resignation of Johannesburg MMC for Community Development, Thapelo Amad, are about far more than the future of one political office-bearer. They expose a deeper crisis that has come to define governance in South Africa’s economic heartland.

ActionSA welcomes a ruling by the Labour Court which struck down an attempt by Tshwane municipal officials, implicated by investigations into the Rooiwal tender award to Edwin Sodi, to halt disciplinary proceedings against them.

ActionSA Joburg Mayoral Candidate, Herman Mashaba, conducted an oversight of the electrification project at Shalazile Informal Settlement in Denver.