ActionSA notes, with concern, the mass protest action scheduled by COSATU and SAFTU set to take place on Wednesday this week.

ActionSA has taken note of the press conference held by Mayor Randall Williams, along with hollow threats “to consider legal action against ActionSA Leaders.” It is important to note that there is a significant difference between litigating and threatening to litigate when truth is a defence against defamation.

Today, Kgosi Kwena Mangope, of the Bahurutshe boo Manyane responsible for Motswedi and Mmasebudule villages in Lehurutshe, held a media breakfast briefing with North-West media in Mahikeng. 

ActionSA is committed to making this coalition government work in the City of Tshwane because it is what the residents of this City demand from us. The residents of The Capital voted the ANC out following years of mismanagement, and we have a duty to the residents to ensure that coalitions do not give them more of the same.

Public Safety is measured not simply by the absence of crime, but also by the presence of fairness and justice. The department’s objective is to build a city where life, property and are safe and secure so that residents and businesses can live and thrive.

Today, ActionSA will submit statements taken from councillors in KwaDukuza to the Speaker of the municipality. The statements attest to an environment of fear, intimidation and violence prevailing in municipal council meetings requiring ActionSA’s motions of no confidence to be conducted by secret ballot.

ActionSA calls upon the Minister of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development, Thoko Didiza, to urgently reconsider and revoke this illogical knee-jerk “decree” to ban the movement of cattle before having implemented a variety of interventions that do not threaten to decimate the livelihoods of the cattle industry.

ActionSA welcomes the eventual withdrawal of the proposal for an unsolicited bid by the Executive Mayor of Tshwane, Randall Williams. This is a victory for the people of Tshwane and a vindication of a position held by ActionSA that the proposal for an unsolicited bid in this regard would be unlawful.

ActionSA’s Senate met last night, following engagements with our caucus in the City of Tshwane, and has resolved that we will vote against a report brought by the Executive Mayor of Tshwane on the grounds that it is manifestly unlawful and in breach of the prescripts of a signed multiparty coalition agreement.

ActionSA notes the resignation of Patricia Kopane from the Democratic Alliance (DA) both as a party member and a Member of Parliament (MP).

Following the harrowing accounts of the gruesome rapes that took place in Krugersdorp late last month, I have written to the Minister of Police, Bheki Cele, and the Gauteng Provincial Police Commissioner, Lieutenant-General Elias Mawela, requesting that they make public the company responsible for the music video being shot at that location.

Following the harrowing accounts of the gruesome rapes that took place in Krugersdorp late last month, ActionSA President Herman Mashaba has written to the Minister of Police, Bheki Cele, and the Gauteng Provincial Police Commissioner, Lieutenant-General Elias Mawela, requesting that they make public the company responsible for the music video being shot at that location.

On the eve of Women’s Day, Ashleigh Buhai made history by becoming the third South African woman to win a major golf championship, being the AIG Women’s Open at Muirfield in Scotland.

ActionSA welcomes the long-awaited and overdue termination by City of Tshwane of the contract for the refurbishment of the Rooiwal Wastewater Treatment Plant, previously awarded to a joint venture of companies owned by Edwin Sodi.