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.
