ActionSA is outraged by the criminal behaviour of EFF Councillors in the City of Tshwane, including its Regional Chairperson, Obakeng Ramabodu, who trespassed on a private venue today, disrupted polygraph tests being conducted with ActionSA Councillors and stole the polygraph equipment.
ActionSA is in full support of South Africa’s LGBTQIA+ community and their right to equality as part of an inclusive society and will work to ensure that they are included and protected within all spheres of society.
ActionSA extends its heartfelt condolences to the loved ones of the late Free State Education MEC, Tate Makgoe.
ActionSA is pleased to announce that its Senate voted in favour of contesting the Ward 11 by-election in KwaNongoma. This will be the first by-election contested by ActionSA in KwaZulu-Natal and forms part of our national agenda towards Project 2024.
ActionSA has initiated a process to identify any councillors within our ranks in Tshwane who may have departed from the decisions of the ActionSA caucus to support Cilliers Brink’s candidature for Mayor at the Council meeting held on 28 February 2023.
ActionSA calls on Zululand District to decentralise emergency vehicles to local municipalities. We are devastated to learn of a fire that engulfed a shopping centre in KwaNongoma under the Zululand District Municipality, leaving many without work and business owners feeling helpless.
ActionSA has learnt that the Province will forfeit a further R100 million from the grant that was meant for the maintenance of school infrastructure in the Province as it was not spent within the 2022/23 National Fiscal Year.
The multi-party coalition in the City of Tshwane expresses its disappointment at the election of COPE’s Murunwa Makwarela as the Mayor of Tshwane.
ActionSA councillors voted to support the City of Ekurhuleni adjustment budget during council proceedings today, despite a number of reservations, to stave off the total and complete arrest of service delivery provision.
Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan’s admission that former Eskom CEO Andre De Ruyter spoke to him about corrupt individuals vindicates De Ruyter and the claims he made during an interview on e.TV, and shows the ANC’s inability and refusal to address serious allegations of corruption within its ranks.
The South African Police Service must intensify efforts to deal with gang-related gun violence in Westbury. The community of Westbury have dubbed their area a warzone. It is disheartening that there are some among us in our country who are subjected to all sorts of social ills, from extreme poverty, substance and drug abuse, gender-based violence to the trauma constantly living in fear of gangs in their communities.
ActionSA is not confident that mediation between the applicants and the various respondents in our court case against the eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality and the Minister of Tourism inter alia, would resolve in a successful resolution of the ongoing sewerage crisis in eThekwini. To the contrary, we are of the view that it is a delaying tactic for the state to avoid accountability.
An answering affidavit by recently departed Eskom CEO, Andre de Ruyter, to ActionSA, UDM and 17 others’ court case proves, without any doubt, that the decisions of the ANC-led government, as far back as 1998, are directly to blame for the state of loadshedding in which South Africa currently finds itself.
Today’s decision by the Financial Action Task Force (“FATF”) to place South Africa on its grey list of jurisdictions under increased monitoring is a devastating development that will further harm South Africa’s ailing economy further compounding the unemployment crisis.
The tabling of a United States (US) House of Representatives resolution (Resolution 145, 21 February), calling for the US to review its bilateral relations with South Africa, is another example of the pitfalls the ANC government’s commitment to supporting Russia in its war against Ukraine has for South Africa.
