ActionSA is calling on Eskom to urgently restore power to parts of Mahikeng that were left in the dark after a fire broke out at the Mahikeng substation ten days ago.

ActionSA, UDM and 17 others claimed victory today by securing electricity supply to all South African public health establishments, schools and police stations, after we won Part A of our court case against the Minister of Public Enterprises and others.

ActionSA thanks the three City of Johannesburg DA councillors who sided with ActionSA, IFP, ACDP, VF+ and UIM to keep the ANC-EFF out of the City of Johannesburg by voting for Funzi Ngobeni as mayor.

It is apparent from the DA’s actions of the past two weeks that there was no real intention to build a majority behind the former multi-party coalition. At a time in which they are announcing moonshot pacts to stop theoretical ANC/EFF governments in 2024, they have proven unwilling to lift a finger to stop an actual ANC/EFF government here in Joburg.

ActionSA today handed over a memorandum of demand to the Jabulani Police Station, Soweto, demanding action over drug abuse in the community, and the unlawful arrest of a whistle-blower in the community.

ActionSA has written to the Auditor-General’s office requesting an urgent investigation into reports that over R100 million earmarked for the renovation of Dick Montshioa and Pilanesberg Airports went missing.

ActionSA is outraged to learn that an African National Congress (ANC), Mzimuni Ngiba, ward 101 councillor in the eThekwini Municipality is still receiving his remuneration from the Municipality, despite being behind bars for the past 12 months on the charge of murder.

ActionSA cautiously welcomes the decision by the Department of Correctional Services (DCS) to terminate the concession held by G4S to manage the Mangaung Correctional Centre.

ActionSA is extremely angry by the ANC-EFF coalition’s theatrics in the City of Johannesburg council which has again left the city without a mayor to the detriment of service delivery to the city’s more than four million residents.

The families of Pretty Nkambule, Yvonne Mnisi and Solomon Nyirenda say on this Workers’ Day, they feel insulted by Fikile Mbalula and his COSATU and SACP alliance when they visited the Lily Mine site to mark Workers’ Day.

This morning, ActionSA wrote to the MEC for Education, Ms Mbali Frazer, urgently seeking clarity on whether the Department has terminated their National School Nutrition Programme (NSNP) contractual agreement with Pacina Retail Pty (LTD), who was tasked to deliver food to schools across the province, but miserably failed to do so, leaving over 2 million children to go without food for days.

ActionSA can confirm that it has been holding engagements with the IFP, the FF Plus, the ACDP and the UIM to determine the viability of rallying around a Mayoral Candidate that can stabilise governance for the benefit of all residents in Johannesburg.

ActionSA has written to Minister of Home Affairs, Aaron Motsoaledi, and Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy, Gwede Mantashe, to urgently intervene in the ongoing violence caused by Zama Zamas in the community of Riverlea in Johannesburg.

The families of the Lily Mine Victims – Solomon Nrirende, Pretty Nkambule and Yvonne Mnisi – are shocked by the ANC Secretary General, Fikile Mbalula, and COSATU General Secretary, Solly Phetoe’s, planned visit to Lily Mine without prior consultation with the families.  

The following remarks were delivered by Herman Mashaba, President of ActionSA, at a Freedom Day Rally held at Giant Stadium in Soshanguve, Tshwane.