ActionSA is devastated to learn that approximately 5400 schools in the province of KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) were without food due to tender irregularities, after the Department of Education in the Province awarded a single individual a multi-million Rand National School Nutrition Programme (NSNP) tender to supply food to schools across the province, forcing learners to starve on their first day back to school upon returning from Easter Holidays.

ActionSA today visited the community of Kliptown to provide residents with feedback on the motion we tabled in the City of Johannesburg Council in March which asked the city’s Executive to develop a bucket toilet eradication plan for all informal settlements. However, the motion was blocked by the ANC-EFF coalition, with some insisting that there are no bucket toilets in Johannesburg.

It is as disappointing as it is unsurprising that the people of Giyani will have to wait another year, if not longer, to receive their basic human right to water after the Department of Water and Sanitation asks them to wait yet another year after 4 missed deadlines over 9 years.

Due to ANC’s infighting, Mangaung has no Mayor and no City Manager. Just last week a Speaker was elected from the Democratic Alliance, an opposition party. This points to a leadership crisis in the metro and this comes at the expense of service delivery.

The kaNyamazane Clinic in Mpumalanga has been turning communities away from its doors for the past few months. The clinic staff has cited shortage of medication as the primary reason for this.

ActionSA has learned of how scores of sickly and elderly grant recipients have been repeatedly and unfairly turned away from the Mdantsane branch of the South African Post Office.

Three months since Thapelo Amad’s election as City of Johannesburg Mayor through the ANC-EFF’s coalition of doom, his administration has seemingly abandoned implementing the city’s informal trading policy while the inner-city decays.

Following a multiple-vehicle collision involving light motor vehicles, mini-buses and trucks on the N3 between Hilton and Cedara outside Pietermaritzburg, which claimed the lives of at least 5 people, ActionSA calls for removal of heavy-duty trucks on roads.

ActionSA will today submit motions of no confidence in the City of Johannesburg puppet-mayor Thapelo Amad, the dishonest Speaker Colleen Makhubele and other office bearers who were all appointed through crooked dealings between the ANC’s Gauteng Provincial Chairperson, Panyaza Lesufi, and the EFF.

ActionSA notes with great concern the behaviour of eThekwini Mayor Mxolisi Kaunda where he publicly snubbed the reality of eThekwini on social media.

ActionSA is extremely disappointed in the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) rejection of South Africa’s request to surrender Atul and Rajesh Gupta to stand trial for state capture-related crimes.

ActionSA in Tshwane would like to wish our residents well during this upcoming long weekend and Easter period. As we know, the many residents of Tshwane will be travelling to visit friends and family during this period.

ActionSA condemns comments made by ANC City of Johannesburg Member of the Mayoral Committee (MMC) for Environmental and Infrastructure Services (EISD), Jack Sekwaila, who sought to blame the state of the city’s streets on the homeless when it is the ANC which is directly responsible for the city’s decay.

ActionSA wishes all South Africans and members of the country’s diverse Christian Faith Community a peaceful and safe Easter Weekend.

In February this year, ActionSA appealed against the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment approval of the City of Cape Town’s application for a permit to continue pumping raw sewage into the ocean at Green Point and Camps Bay for another five (5) years.