This is the speech delivered by ActionSA President, Herman Mashaba, at the launch of the party’s South African Dream ahead of the State of the Nation Address (SoNA) on Thursday this week. Mashaba was joined by ActionSA Gauteng Provincial Chairperson, Bongani Baloyi, ActionSA Tshwane Regional Chairperson, Oupa Mathibela, and members of National, Provincial and Regional Leadership in Ga-Rankuwa Industrial Park in the City of Tshwane today.

ActionSA requests that Gauteng Local Governance MEC, Mzi Khumalo, urgently intervene in the City of Ekurhuleni Council after its Speaker, Raymond Dhlamini, from the Democratic Alliance (DA) this evening purposefully collapsed council proceedings.

Contrary to DA Leader, John Steenhuisen’s assertion that saving Former Mayor Phalatse was a “price too high to pay”, the announcement of City of Johannesburg Mayor Thapelo Amad’s Mayoral Committee might be the real price too high to pay for the residents of our great city.

In the interest of holding the ANC government account for the energy crisis, ActionSA will be taking joint legal action against Eskom, the Department of Mineral and Energy Resources and the Department of Public Enterprises, and the Government of the Republic of South Africa to take them to task over Eskom’s failure to provide South Africa with a stable energy supply.

During yesterday’s council meeting, the Auditor-General (A-G) tabled its audit outcome for the financial year, which we saw the city absurdly celebrating its ‘unqualified’ audit opinion, despite its findings.

We note the allegations made by disgruntled former ActionSA Member, Abel Tau, against ActionSA President, Herman Mashaba.

ActionSA has written to Western Cape MEC for Education, David Maynier

South Africa’s funeral parlour industry is feeling the pinch as small and big scale mortuaries are experiencing the rise in maintaining cold room temperatures due to ongoing electricity blackouts.

This week’s resignation of City of Ekurhuleni Chief Whip, Kheta Shandu, and Oversight Chairperson, Pieter Henning, both from the Democratic Alliance (DA), is indicative of the implosion currently taking place as a result of the DA’s failures to lead coalitions.

ActionSA rejects the proposed R1 billion sponsorship of English Premier League’s Tottenham Hotspur that Tourism Minister Lindiwe Sisulu and the Department of Tourism, through its marketing agency SA Tourism, are trying to push through with haste.

ActionSA notes reports of the potential implementation of a National State of Disaster relating to the continued rolling blackouts and the devastating effect it has on the national economy. Again, South Africans are made to suffer Stage 6 load shedding this week.

ActionSA is pleased that today the High Court in Pretoria decided to set aside the frivolous report into me during my time as the Executive Mayor of the City of Johannesburg.

ActionSA has taken the initiative to propose a power-sharing government in the eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality, as we can no longer allow residents to be subjected to such impertinence from the African National Congress (ANC).