Remarks by ActionSA President Herman Mashaba in Polokwane, where we announced the merger of three parties with ActionSA.

ActionSA is deeply concerned by the GNU’s failure to table a budget. This government has once again let the people of South Africa down and is more focused on backroom politics.

Ahead of this year’s Budget Speech, Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana would do well to heed the 2,000-year-old wisdom of Roman playwright Terence: Fortes fortuna adiuvat—fortune favours the bold.

ActionSA is deeply concerned about the continued dysfunctionality and financial mismanagement in Maluti-A-Phofung Local Municipality demand urgent intervention.

The latest unemployment figures confirm what South Africans already know—our economy has stalled, with negligible GDP growth and unacceptably high unemployment.

ActionSA will write to the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC), requesting an urgent investigation into the ongoing medication shortage and related healthcare crisis unfolding across KwaZulu-Natal.

ActionSA condemns the violent and humiliating treatment of a group of young South African men, allegedly at the hands of nightclub owners and security personnel in Tshwane.

ActionSA firmly opposes any tax increases in this year’s Budget Speech unless accompanied by deep cuts to government luxuries, including Cabinet perks and redundant state functions such as Deputy Ministers.

From the outset it must be known that ActionSA is not opposed to transparency in Party Funding. Truth be told ActionSA has led from the front in this regard through consistent funding declarations, consecutive clean audits and raising numerous issues of non-compliance by other parties with the IEC.

ActionSA Joburg Caucus welcomes the High Court Judgement on the VIP Protection Policy handed down by Justice S D J Wilson.

ActionSA is outraged by the ANC-led government’s shameless abdication of responsibility in tackling the drug crisis that is tearing South African communities apart.

ActionSA Gauteng will write a letter to the Education MEC to appraise him of the situation that the school is in and demand an immediate as well as a long-term action plan on how to get the school’s staff complement and infrastructure supplemented.

ActionSA has written a letter to City of Johannesburg Mayor, Cllr Dada Morero, and MMC for Transport, Cllr Kenny Kunene, demanding clarity on the R194 million Lilian Ngoyi Street restoration tender awarded to Korone Engineering amid allegations of irregularities.

ActionSA has filed court papers in the Johannesburg High Court under Case Number 2025-018398 to demand access, at our own cost, to the Lily Mine site and to appoint a qualified and experienced mine rescue company to retrieve the container.

ActionSA calls on the MEC for Health, Ms. Nomagugu Simelane-Mngadi, to resign following her deceitful and reckless conduct.