ActionSA has lodged complaints against the City of Tshwane and its former Executive Mayor, Randall Williams, with the Public Protector and South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) for their failure to act on the Rooiwal Wastewater Treatment Plant (RWTP) which may have led to the current cholera outbreak.

ActionSA welcomes the resignation of Babalwa Ngonyama, the Chair of the UCT Council, in light of the damning recommendations made in the interim report by the Independent Panel of Investigation into UCT Governance, which has concluded that the Council must act with urgency to remove the Chair of Council.

ActionSA will write to the Executive Mayor of Tshwane, Cllr Cilliers Brink, requesting that he take the families of the 12 deceased, the people of Hammanskraal and the Greater Tshwane region into is confidence and provide feedback and a way forward to ensure that on other residents do not get sick.

As part of our ongoing policy engagement process, ActionSA will this week engage with South Africans on what needs to be done to end the country’s energy crisis.

ActionSA regards it necessary to provide clarification on the matter of The Outsider – the biography authored by Prince Mashele about Herman Mashaba’s life and political experience. Such a clarification was only possible this morning following the return late last night of Mashaba from an international trip with his family.

On the 26th of April 2023, ActionSA, led by President Herman Mashaba and myself, marched to the Office of the Premier of the Eastern Cape to deliver a memorandum which highlighted the sordid state of the province.

ActionSA welcomes City of Tshwane Mayor Cilliers Brink’s focus to address the adverse findings of the Auditor-General (A-G) into the city’s finances during his maiden State of The Capital Address (SoCA).

ActionSA will write to City of Ekurhuleni Mayor, Sivuyile Ngodwana, to urgently intervene in the ongoing electricity outages in Tembisa where ongoing civil unrest by the community has seen the only remaining customer care centre being burnt down last week.

ActionSA welcomes the call by the Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa (CONTRALESA) for the formalisation and institutionalisation of the initiation process.

ActionSA supports the transformation of the country’s economy, and the need to build an inclusive economy where all South Africans can be genuine roleplayers, but South Africa’s experience over the past few decades has shown that this cannot be achieved through strict numerical targets set by the draft Employment Equity (EE) regulations.

ActionSA believes City of Tshwane Mayor Cilliers Brink should prioritise stabilising the city’s finances during his inaugural State of the City Address (SOCA) on Thursday, as well as announce plans to invest in strategic infrastructure such as the Rooiwal Wastewater Treatment Plant.

ActionSA believes South Africa’s sustained disastrously high unemployment rate – with the broad unemployment rate now at 42.4%, and the youth unemployment rate for those aged up to 24 years at a catastrophic 71.2% – highlights the urgent need for the government to change its approach to the economy and find new solutions to create jobs and lift people out of poverty.

ActionSA is deeply concerned about the recent unrest that has erupted across university campuses in the Western Cape. We recognise that the current turmoil is mainly related to funding and access to a safe, affordable, and conducive learning and housing environment.

ActionSA Youth Forum celebrates its first victory in the province after securing a seat in the Student Council at Mopani TVET College Sir Val Duncan Campus in Ba-Phalaborwa.

ActionSA is gravely concerned with the latest findings from the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS), released today by the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA).