I along with ActionSA’s legal team comprising Hein Valentine from MVMT Inc. Attorneys and our counsel, Adv. Gillian Benson, as well as a delegation from ActionSA and the MEC of COGTA (and their representatives), have completed the first leg of the site inspection tour of various non-operational sewerage pump stations and wastewater treatment works (WWTW) in the North of eThekwini Municipality

ActionSA mourns the passing of City of Johannesburg Integrity Commissioner, Dr Daniel Rampai, after a short illness and we express our sincere condolences to his friends and family

ActionSA believes that there is no need for Gauteng Premier, Panyaza Lesufi, to set up a Committee of Inquiry into the cause of the devastating building fire in Marshalltown, Johannesburg.

ActionSA will be reporting the EFF Speaker in Ekurhuleni, Cllr Nthabiseng Tshivhenga, to the Ethics Committee over her irrational decision to block ActionSA’s motion without notice. ActionSA submitted a motion in council to suspend the fraud-accused, Mr Xolani Nciza, a high-level cadre deployed as Divisional Head in the HR Department in Ekurhuleni.

ActionSA is heartbroken by the death of more than 70 people in the devastating building fire in Marshalltown, Johannesburg, and believes that the state should be charged with culpable homicide as the blaze could easily have been avoided.

ActionSA has deployed councillors and activists to assist the families affected by the devastating building fire in Marshalltown, Johannesburg, and we extend our sincere condolences to the families of the people killed in the inferno.

ActionSA will write to the National Director of Public Prosecutions (NDPP), Adv. Shamila Batohi, requesting her to take the nation into her confidence and to address the nation on why the R280 million Estina Dairy Farm case in Vrede, in which disgraced ANC Secretary-General, Ace Magashule, is implicated, was yesterday delayed until August 2024.

ActionSA UCT condemns the blatant contempt and disregard demonstrated by the UCT SRC President and Secretary-General.

ActionSA is pleased to announce that after a four-day Senate Strategic Planning Session, its portion of an exhaustive policy process has been concluded and is now ready for consideration at its inaugural policy conference.

The first-quarter crime statistics for the Gauteng Province, released on Tuesday, show that crime continues to spiral out of control in the province – with contact crimes up by as much as 6% – while Premier Panyaza Lesufi spends millions on gimmicks such as his crime wardens’ scheme and Nasi Ispani.

ActionSA will be supporting a motion to eradicate bucket toilets in the City of Johannesburg that will be tabled by the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) in council today, despite the EFF and ANC voting against a similar motion tabled by ActionSA in March. We are putting politics aside in service to the residents of Johannesburg.

Today, ActionSA celebrates its third birthday as a political party launched on 29 August 2020 from a live studio broadcast in the middle of a COVID-19 lockdown.

On Saturday, the 26th of August, Zintle Khobeni De Lange, Chairperson of ActionSA’s Western Cape Women’s Forum, and Matthew George, Chairperson of the Student Forum, along with other ActionSA members, took part in the Uyinene Mrwetyana Foundation’s Unity Walk.

ActionSA will formally write to both Transnet and Fidelity calling for the insourcing of all security guards after they are both alleged to have terminated the employment of more than 200 security guards some of whom had been employed there for 10 years and more.

ActionSA believes the Zimbabwean Election Commission’s declaration of the Zanu-PF President, Emmerson Mnangagwa, as the winner of last week’s national elections exemplifies how the ruling party’s “silent diplomacy” has been an abysmal failure and has instead increased the humanitarian burden on South Africa.