Remarks delivered by ActionSA’s Member of Parliament, Alan Beesley, during the debate on the Rates and Monetary Amounts Bil in the National Assembly this afternoon.

Remarks by ActionSA National Chairperson, Michael Beaumont at the 6th event of the ‘Mashaba Legacy Tour’.

ActionSA welcomes the Auditor-General’s 2024/25 audit outcomes for the City of Tshwane, which confirm a clear and measurable improvement in the City’s financial governance.

ActionSA is angered by the Deputy President’s latest attempt to evade accountability for his international and domestic travel expenses.

ActionSA notes the Democratic Alliance’s decision today to lay criminal charges against the Deputy Executive Mayor of Tshwane, Cllr Eugene Modise, following the tabling of the forensic investigation report before Council last week.

ActionSA is once again compelled to set the record straight after Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure, Dean Macpherson, attempted to mislead South Africans with false claims that his department is “turning South Africa into a construction site” and driving a supposed boom in the sector.

ActionSA notes the Adjustment Budget tabled yesterday by the MEC for Finance and welcomes measures aimed at strengthening financial management, including investments in ICT modernisation, the support provided to township suppliers, and efforts to improve procurement processes.

Today’s GDP figures for the third quarter of the year show that the economy grew by just 0.5% between July and September, yet another warning sign that the Government of National Unity (GNU) is running an economy stuck in first gear.

Today, ActionSA Joburg Caucus will vote in favour of the motion to rescind the unjust and anti-poor electricity surcharge imposed on residents by the ANC-led government.

ActionSA can reveal that dozens of individuals and companies implicated in State Capture and the PPE corruption scandal remain fully eligible to continue to trade with government. 

ActionSA welcomes the arrest of Mr Zacharia Tshisele, an employee at Tembisa Hospital, for alleged corruption. This arrest follows an extensive SIU investigation into procurement irregularities at the hospital which identified 15 officials as involved in looting at the hospital.

ActionSA Gauteng Women’s Forum marks World AIDS Day with a clarion call for urgent, women-centred action.

ActionSA notes the delayed release of the 2025/26 first and second quarter crime statistics, which reveal that 63 South Africans were murdered every single day, almost three every hour. 

We live in a country where outrage is fashionable and nuance is fast fashion. So when ActionSA MP Dereleen James raised her voice against Vusimuzi “Cat” Matlala during his appearance before Parliament’s Ad Hoc Committee, the online backlash was swift and predictable.

ActionSA welcomes the results of the Ward 10 Merafong by-election held on Wednesday, 26 November 2025, which demonstrate unmistakably that our party has become the leading alternative to the failed ANC administration in this municipality.