ActionSA believes the National Government, including the Police Department and Health Department, should take responsibility for the roughly 120 pupils – including 50 who are in hospital – who suffered from food poisoning in Komani, Eastern Cape, after possibly buying counterfeit goods.

We’ve been at this point before where opinion polling underestimates the impact new political players such as ActionSA will have on the electoral landscape. And, with the 2024 elections just a few months away, opinion polling will again underestimate the impact we will have.

ActionSA demands that the teacher responsible for allegedly bullying and making homophobic comments to a now deceased Sibusiso Mbatha be suspended until the investigation has been concluded and a verdict has been reached.

Victory for ActionSA as Ekurhuleni’s Council adopted a progressive insourcing report which will see thousands of outsourced security personnel being insourced directly into the City’s personnel over a multi-year transitional period.

ActionSA is concerned about the increasing crime levels taking place in Muchipisi Village.

ActionSA notes the unsurprising, yet deeply concerning, findings of the recent report by the Public Protector report into the provision of essential services and infrastructure in the Eastern Cape.

ActionSA has committed itself to working hand-in-hand with communities and water supply authorities in addressing the on-going water challenges.

ActionSA North West is calling on the North West Provincial Government and the South African Police Service (SAPS) organised crime unit to investigate the fire that engulfed the Ditsobotla Natural History Museum at Ditsobotla Local Municipality last night.

Yesterday, Tuesday 24 October 2023, I and ActionSA’s Tshwane Caucus joined officials of the city to conduct a Spazashop Oversight in Soshanguve (Tshwane Region 1). Part of the operation was to check the legality of all spazashop operations and their compliance with the City’s by-laws.

ActionSA welcomes the termination of the former NSFAS CEO, Andile Nongogo’s contract.

ActionSA welcomes KZN EDTEA’s withdrawal of the planned R28 million splurge on the SAMAs. This comes after ActionSA’s persistent demand to halt the plan, which resulted in a cumulative total of R53 million of taxpayers’ money being inappropriately earmarked, a plan that both EDTEA and the eThekwini Municipality simply cannot justify.

The families of the Lily Mine victims have today granted ActionSA Power of Attorney to pursue further legal action against those liable for the tragedy and ensure that the business rescue procedures are implemented as determined by the Mbombela Magistrates’ Court.

ActionSA has already taken to the streets of numerous communities in Gauteng and engaged with the appropriate authorities to undertake inspections at unregistered informal shops in light of the recent death caused by the sale and consumption of counterfeit goods.

ActionSA has written to ANC President Cyril Ramaphosa, requesting his immediate intervention to halt KZN EDTEA’s planned R28 million splurge on the SAMAs.

ActionSA President, Herman Mashaba, and ActionSA Mpumalanga Provincial Chairperson, Thoko Mashiane, together with the families of Pretty Nkambule, Yvonne Mnisi and Solomon Nyirende will on Tuesday, 24 October 2023, announce the further steps to be taken after the Constitutional Court’s (ConCourt) dismissal of Vantage Goldfield’s leave to appeal, earlier this week. This decision by our nation’s apex court, effectively, upheld the Supreme Court of Appeal’s (SCA) earlier decision that the adopted Business Rescue Plan and amendments thereto must be submitted to creditors so that they may vote on the Business Rescue Plan.