The announcement that Premier Lesufi’s ‘Nasi Ispani’ Provincial Government programme received a staggering 1.2 million applications for just 8,000 alleged job opportunities underscores ActionSA’s view that the contemptuous scheme is an ineffectual election gimmick that preys on desperately unemployed youth while offering no hope for gainful employment.
ActionSA Gauteng Provincial Chairperson, Funzi Ngobeni, will resign as the City of Johannesburg ActionSA Caucus Leader and councillor, effective on the 31st of July 2023, to focus on our 2024 election campaign to unseat the ANC in Gauteng and fix the province.
ActionSA believes that former President Jacob Zuma should not try and avoid accountability and returning to prison, as ruled by the Constitutional Court on Thursday, by fleeing South Africa to seek medical attention in Russia.
ActionSA will, on Saturday, embark on a petition to dissolve the Emfuleni Local Municipality Council and have the municipality placed under administration, in line with Section 139(1)(c) of the South African Constitution.
ActionSA has noted the response by Gauteng Premier, Panyaza Lesufi, to our concerns that the ‘Nasi Ispani’ campaign is being used to hire ANC cadres are “fantasies”.
Today, ActionSA met with security guards who are striking outside R.K. Khan Hospital in Chatsworth, after they downed tools due to not receiving June salaries.
ActionSA will today embark on a comprehensive legal process to ensure that we prevent Gauteng ANC and Gauteng Premier, Panyaza Lesufi, from abusing the ‘Nasi Ispani’ Provincial Government programme, as part of a program to only hire ANC cadres in the run-up to the 2024 election campaign.
ActionSA in the Western Cape has written to Dr Nomafrench Mbombo, Western Cape Minister of Health & Wellness, requesting her to investigate the response times of ambulances, waiting periods for patient transport and waiting times for patients to be attended to by hospital staff at Eerste Rivier Hospital.
ActionSA notes with deep concern the termination of 706 nurses’ contracts while 79 unemployed doctors remain stranded, awaiting placement in hospitals across Limpopo.
We are disturbed by a video that is currently doing the rounds on social media, where security guards at R.K. Khan Hospital in Chatsworth, Durban, are seen being rounded up on a road outside the hospital by a group of SAPS members.
ActionSA has launched a public consultation programme to guide its approach to multi-party pact, and ensure that it is guided by the voices of all South Africans.
ActionSA condemns the decision made by MEC for Public Works, Mr Sipho ’KK’ Nkosi, to enter into negotiations with the ‘construction mafia’, which has been terrorising and disrupting construction projects in parts of KwaZulu-Natal (KZN).
ActionSA will establish a special committee, headed by ActionSA Gauteng Chairperson Funzi Ngobeni, to prioritise the insourcing of City of Tshwane security and cleaning personnel, in line with our 2021 municipal election promise
ActionSA welcomes the rejection by the National Energy Regulation of South Africa (NERSA) of eThekwini’s ludicrous electricity tariff increase for the financial year starting 01 July 2023.
ActionSA has deployed our City of Ekurhuleni Councillors to assist families affected by a gas explosion in the Angelo informal settlement in Boksburg and extends our heartfelt condolences to the victims of this tragic incident.
