The constant hammering of negative headlines in the local media in the City of Tshwane is intense and numbing.

ActionSA has submitted a Parliamentary Question to the Minister of Transport seeking clarity on why SANRAL and the Department of Transport continue to engage China State Construction Engineering Corporation and Base Major Construction despite serious allegations against both companies.

There’s a tendency in our public life to reduce complex conversations to viral one-liners. That’s dangerous, especially when the subject is immigration and the figures involved are as polarising as Herman Mashaba and Operation Dudula.

ActionSA’s call for additional funding for the South African Revenue Service (SARS), rather than taxing ordinary South Africans through a Value Added Tax (VAT) hike, has been vindicated.

Remarks delivered by ActionSA National Chairperson, Michael Beaumont at the fourth event of the ‘Mashaba Legacy Tour.’

Yesterday, during Parliament’s ad hoc committee hearings, ActionSA’s Dereleen James MP powerfully exposed how many of the NPA’s failures stem from Shamila Batohi’s lack of leadership of this critical institution.

ActionSA welcomes the news that 248 000 jobs were created in the third quarter of this year, as indicated in Statistics South Africa’s Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) released today. 

ActionSA can reveal that South Africa’s 43 redundant Deputy Ministers alone cost taxpayers over R500 million each year, while the combined cost of Ministers and Deputy Ministers exceeds R3 billion annually.

ActionSA welcomes the Public Protector’s Report No. 21 of 2025/26, which found Premier Panyaza Lesufi’s Crime Prevention Wardens (AmaPanyaza) programme to be unlawful, irregular, and unconstitutional.

ActionSA condemns the Democratic Alliance’s latest statement as a blatant and deliberate lie intended to mislead the public and smear the Executive Mayor of Tshwane.

Earlier today, ActionSA’s Mayoral Candidate for Ekurhuleni, Xolani Khumalo, responded to community
appeals and personally apprehended and handed over to the police a drug dealer who had been
selling drug-laced baked goods to minors in Etwatwa.

ActionSA can reveal, through official parliamentary replies from the Minister of Health, that government continues to permit the looting of state coffers in the wake of the Tembisa Hospital corruption scandal. 

ActionSA has written to the Mpumalanga MEC for Health, Ms. Sasekani Manzini following concerns arising from an oversight visit to the Schoemansdal Clinic in the Nkomazi Local Municipality, earlier today. While ActionSA commends the Department for providing new furniture and undertaking some improvements at the facility, the quality and functionality of several recent upgrades remain deeply concerning.

ActionSA notes the IEC’s confirmation that South Africa now has over 500 registered political parties, with more than 60 new registrations since the 2024 elections.

ActionSA has lodged an ethics complaint against Minister Gayton McKenzie following his misleading reply to our Parliamentary Question regarding the recent “Mokoena-Gate” saga, which nearly cost Bafana Bafana their place in the 2026 FIFA World Cup – their first qualification since 2002.