ActionSA is deeply concerned that the proposed tariff increases by the eThekwini Municipality for the new financial year starting 1 July 2023 is going to place enormous financial pressures on the residents and businesses of the municipality.
Despite the protracted, obscene and voluminous litigation undertaken by Vantage Goldfields – the same management that have been found guilty of negligence in a section 72 enquiry by the Department of Minerals and Resources in 2017 – ActionSA has obtained a victory in the ongoing quest for justice.
Since the beginning of our campaign this year to assess the state of the province, where one of our priority focus was on the state of education, we have outlined numerous instances of the Department of Education infringing on the right of the learners of the Eastern Cape to a decent quality of education.
ActionSA is extremely concerned that Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana’s decision to grant Eskom an exemption from declaring its irregular and fruitless expenditure will allow the utility to hide criminality and theft at the embattled power utility.
ActionSA is concerned that the North-West Government’s underspending of its budget by as much as R1 billion rand will lead to poorer quality roads, worse healthcare provision and ultimately fewer services to the most vulnerable in the province.
On Friday 31 March 2023, eThekwini Metro Municipality finally filed its answering affidavit in ActionSA’s application to end the sewerage crisis in the metro.
More than R1.2 billion spent for construction of the new 250-bed hospital in Middelberg has been halted due to alleged corrupt elements.
ActionSA’s Senate, at its meeting on Friday 31 March 2023, approved the establishment of a Provincial Executive Committee (PEC) in the Western Cape.
ActionSA congratulates DA Federal Leader John Steenhuisen on his re-election to lead the Democratic Alliance (DA) at their elective conference held this weekend.
ActionSA congratulates the appointment of our own Peggy de Bruin as the Member of the Mayoral Committee responsible for Social Development in the City of Tshwane, and Alderman Hannes Coetzee as the MMC responsible for Economic Development & Spatial Planning.
The multi-party coalition has filed petitions signed by a majority of councillors in the City of Tshwane calling for a motion of no confidence in the Speaker to be heard on 12 April and for a meeting to table the adjustment budget for 2022/23 and the draft budget for 2023/24 on 13 April 2023.
It’s been over 15 years and South Africa’s most expensive mental health hospital, that is in our backyard, is still not fully capacitated to serve the people of Kimberly, Galeshewe and many other surrounding areas.
ActionSA North West welcomes the arrest of a former Municipal Director at Moses Kotane Local Municipality who was arrested for fraud in connection with allegations that she received salaries for two government jobs.
ActionSA’s Ekurhuleni Caucus will today vote against a motion of no confidence in the City of Ekurhuleni Mayor Tania Campbell in line with our commitment to keeping the ANC and EFF coalition out of power. As well as avoiding the installation of one-seat party mayors who serve at the behest of the ANC and EFF as seen in the City of Johannesburg.
South Africans are bombarded daily with news of horrendous crimes committed without consequence, despite the severe impact these crimes have on our lives.
