
Eskom’s Ultimatum Over City’s R5.2bn Unpaid Debt Threatens Power Cuts For Joburg Residents
ActionSA notes with grave concern Eskom’s renewed threat to disconnect power to parts of Joburg over City Power’s escalating debt, to the sum of R5.2 billion.

ActionSA notes with grave concern Eskom’s renewed threat to disconnect power to parts of Joburg over City Power’s escalating debt, to the sum of R5.2 billion.

ActionSA has yesterday written to the Speaker of the National Assembly requesting formal clarification that Parliament’s Section 89 impeachment committee may consider all relevant evidence and developments relating to the Phala Phala matter, including information that has emerged since Parliament’s flawed 2022 decision to halt the process.

ActionSA welcomes the landmark ruling by the Constitutional Court declaring key provisions of the National Health Act unconstitutional.

ActionSA is deeply concerned by the horrific reports of the rape of a 14-year-old learner in Masemola, Ward 28 of the Makhuduthamaga Local Municipality.

ActionSA welcomes the belated decision by President Cyril Ramaphosa to finally remove Minister Sisisi Tolashe as Minister of Social Development, following the avalanche of scandal that has engulfed her tenure.

ActionSA welcomes the finding by Parliament’s Joint Committee on Ethics and Members’ Interests that the Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure, Dean Macpherson, breached Parliament’s Code of Ethical Conduct by making discriminatory remarks directed at ActionSA supporters in July last year.

ActionSA can confirm that it has today laid criminal charges against President Cyril Ramaphosa in relation to the Phala Phala matter.

Today, ActionSA Mayoral Candidate, Herman Mashaba, conducted an oversight of the City’s Rea Vaya BRT route from the Johannesburg CBD to Sandton. He was accompanied by ActionSA Councillors serving in the Transport Committee, which is led by the Whip, Lebo Mokoka.

ActionSA welcomes the Constitutional Court ruling affirming that individuals whose asylum applications have been lawfully denied cannot remain in South Africa indefinitely through repeated reapplications and the abuse of legal processes.

President Ramaphosa and his Acting Police Minister, Prof Firoz Cachalia, have both missed deadlines to respond to written parliamentary questions from ActionSA seeking clarity on what consequence management, if any, they have been taken arising from the IPID investigation from October 2023.

ActionSA is calling on President Cyril Ramaphosa to fire all the GNU Ministers responsible for South Africa’s current job-destroying environment, following today’s devastating unemployment statistics released by Statistics South Africa.

ActionSA in North West is concerned that the province has entered the 2026/27 financial year without a fully adopted budget.

ActionSA notes President Cyril Ramaphosa’s announcement that he intends taking the Phala Phala report on judicial review.

ActionSA notes with gross concern developing reports that at least R15 million, not R10 million, is purported to have been stolen from President Ramaphosa’s Phala Phala game farm.

Serving as ActionSA’s first ever Executive Mayor, and having the privilege of leading our nation’s capital over the past 18 months, has been one of the greatest honours of my life.
And today, I accept this nomination as I ask residents for five more years to continue restoring Tshwane and deepening the progress we have begun to make together.
Because my vision for Tshwane is clear: I want us to build a capital city we can be proud of again.