ActionSA mourns the passing of the founder of Pick n Pay, Raymond Ackerman, and expresses our sincere condolences to his friends and family.

The Gauteng Provincial Government, led by Premier Panyaza Lesufi, this week rejected ActionSA’s application in terms of the Promotion of Access to Information Act (PAIA) duly and lawfully requesting to gain access to the hiring documents of all those hired through the Nasi Ispani “job” scheme.

Today, the City of Johannesburg DA caucus voted with the ANC to increase the salaries of all councillors. It is worth noting that no other party in coalition with the ANC supported the proposal which, ultimately, carried as a direct consequence of the DA’s support.

Upon completing our site inspection at the eMobeni Heights Cemetery after receiving numerous requests for intervention from social media users, where a sewage pipe had burst, causing immense damage to multiple graves.

ActionSA denounces the decision by President Ramaphosa to attend the inauguration of Zimbabwean President-Elect, Emmerson Mnagagwa.

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.