ActionSA will be supporting a motion to eradicate bucket toilets in the City of Johannesburg that will be tabled by the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) in council today, despite the EFF and ANC voting against a similar motion tabled by ActionSA in March. We are putting politics aside in service to the residents of Johannesburg.

Today, ActionSA celebrates its third birthday as a political party launched on 29 August 2020 from a live studio broadcast in the middle of a COVID-19 lockdown.

On Saturday, the 26th of August, Zintle Khobeni De Lange, Chairperson of ActionSA’s Western Cape Women’s Forum, and Matthew George, Chairperson of the Student Forum, along with other ActionSA members, took part in the Uyinene Mrwetyana Foundation’s Unity Walk.

ActionSA will formally write to both Transnet and Fidelity calling for the insourcing of all security guards after they are both alleged to have terminated the employment of more than 200 security guards some of whom had been employed there for 10 years and more.

ActionSA believes the Zimbabwean Election Commission’s declaration of the Zanu-PF President, Emmerson Mnangagwa, as the winner of last week’s national elections exemplifies how the ruling party’s “silent diplomacy” has been an abysmal failure and has instead increased the humanitarian burden on South Africa.

ActionSA is disappointed to report that the Motion of No Confidence scheduled to be heard on Thursday against Joburg Mayor, Kabelo Gwamanda, will be temporarily withdrawn.

ActionSA welcomes the decision taken to rename Nongoma Local Municipality to King Goodwill Zwelithini Local Municipality.

ActionSA has written to the Head of the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID), Dikeledi Jennifer Ntlatseng, to urgently investigate the incident where members of the South African Police Service (SAPS) are accused of brutally assaulting Barberton Senior Secondary students.

ActionSA calls for the removal of the EFF MMC for Water, Sanitation & Energy in Ekurhuleni, Cllr Leshaka Manamela, after major service delivery failures from his department have left thousands of residents across the City without power.

After weeks of delays by the City of Johannesburg Speaker Colleen Makhubele, to protect the fragile ANC-EFF coalition, the council’s programming committee today put ActionSA’s Motion of No Confidence (MoNC) against Mayor Kabelo Gwamanda.

Traditional leaders and their representatives, activists and experts told ActionSA today that it should consider restoring land ownership to rural communities, undoing apartheid-era legislation, and including traditional leaders in oversight as ways to include traditional leadership in the project to fix South Africa.

ActionSA will, today, file an application in terms of the Promotion of Access to Information Act(PAIA) to get access to the South African Reserve Bank’s (SARB) report into whether President Cyril Ramaphosa’s failure to disclose the foreign currency which was stolen at his Phala Phala farm in 2020 was indeed unlawful.

ActionSA has written to Gauteng Provincial Legislature Privileges & Ethics Committee Chairperson, Nomvuyo Memory Manamela, to investigate Housing Member of the Executive Council (MEC) Lebogang Maile for his outburst after he was asked questions by a journalist.

ActionSA is consulting our legal representatives following the South African Reserve Bank’s (SARB) investigation which cleared President Cyril Ramaphosa of any wrongdoing related to whether he had to disclose the foreign currency which was stolen at his Phala Phala farm in 2020.

The recent reports on Knysna Municipality’s financial and non-financial performance are extremely concerning. In the Quarter Four Report, tabled to Council on 31 July 2023, the Executive Mayor reported that “As at 30 June 2023 the commitments still exceed the cash and cash equivalents. The cashflow position remains a critical concern.” A warning in the report regarding the current ratios stated that “urgent and immediate intervention is required to ensure that a realistic and achievable financial turnaround strategy is developed and implemented with immediate effect.”