
Mashaba Legacy Tour: Herman Mashaba Was the Last Mayor Who Electrified Johannesburg
Remarks delivered by ActionSA National Chairperson, Michael Beaumont at the 5th event of the ‘Mashaba Legacy Tour’.

Remarks delivered by ActionSA National Chairperson, Michael Beaumont at the 5th event of the ‘Mashaba Legacy Tour’.

Herman Mashaba’s forceful rebuke of Dirk Hermann, the CEO of Solidarity, is not just rhetoric. It is a defence of South Africa’s constitutional and moral roadmap toward effective and meaningful transformation.

On 3 November 2025, an event took place that received little attention despite its considerable impact.

We are a country at breaking point. We look around and wonder how we got here, from hope, from the promise of change, to a gnawing sense of betrayal.

ActionSA Students Chapter welcomes the call by the Minister of Finance, Enoch Godongwana, to scrap the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) and to redirect student funding directly to institutions of higher learning.

Remarks delivered by ActionSA Caucus Leader in the Gauteng Legislature and Provincial Chairperson, Funzi Ngobeni, at the House Sitting to Debate the DA’s Motion of No Confidence Against Gauteng Premier, Panyaza Lesufi.

The constant hammering of negative headlines in the local media in the City of Tshwane is intense and numbing.

ActionSA has submitted a Parliamentary Question to the Minister of Transport seeking clarity on why SANRAL and the Department of Transport continue to engage China State Construction Engineering Corporation and Base Major Construction despite serious allegations against both companies.

There’s a tendency in our public life to reduce complex conversations to viral one-liners. That’s dangerous, especially when the subject is immigration and the figures involved are as polarising as Herman Mashaba and Operation Dudula.

ActionSA’s call for additional funding for the South African Revenue Service (SARS), rather than taxing ordinary South Africans through a Value Added Tax (VAT) hike, has been vindicated.

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

Yesterday, during Parliament’s ad hoc committee hearings, ActionSA’s Dereleen James MP powerfully exposed how many of the NPA’s failures stem from Shamila Batohi’s lack of leadership of this critical institution.

ActionSA welcomes the news that 248 000 jobs were created in the third quarter of this year, as indicated in Statistics South Africa’s Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) released today.

ActionSA can reveal that South Africa’s 43 redundant Deputy Ministers alone cost taxpayers over R500 million each year, while the combined cost of Ministers and Deputy Ministers exceeds R3 billion annually.

ActionSA welcomes the Public Protector’s Report No. 21 of 2025/26, which found Premier Panyaza Lesufi’s Crime Prevention Wardens (AmaPanyaza) programme to be unlawful, irregular, and unconstitutional.