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.
ActionSA has resubmitted its motion to the Speaker of the eThekwini Metro Municipality, Mr Thabani Nyawose, which was submitted to the Speaker on 10 May 2023, calling on the city to begin the process of insourcing all security personnel within the Municipality.
Deputy President, Paul Mashatile, has been caught lying in a statement where he said he was not present when members of his SAPS VIP Protection Unit assaulted three South Africans, with multiple reports now saying that the unit was escorting Mashatile home.
ActionSA is concerned about the ANC Government’s lack of response to the ongoing protests in Diepsloot where members have taken to the streets in protest because their repeated pleas for the state to address the high crime in the area have fallen on deaf ears.
Cosatu’s planned strike this week over the state of the economy, poor governance, and the falling living standards of workers is effectively a march against itself as it is a member of the Tripartite Alliance, and its own leaders sit in the South African Cabinet and Parliament.
