This week’s resignation of City of Ekurhuleni Chief Whip, Kheta Shandu, and Oversight Chairperson, Pieter Henning, both from the Democratic Alliance (DA), is indicative of the implosion currently taking place as a result of the DA’s failures to lead coalitions.
ActionSA rejects the proposed R1 billion sponsorship of English Premier League’s Tottenham Hotspur that Tourism Minister Lindiwe Sisulu and the Department of Tourism, through its marketing agency SA Tourism, are trying to push through with haste.
ActionSA notes reports of the potential implementation of a National State of Disaster relating to the continued rolling blackouts and the devastating effect it has on the national economy. Again, South Africans are made to suffer Stage 6 load shedding this week.
ActionSA is pleased that eThekwini Council today acceded to our request to have the motion of no confidence against eThekwini Executive Mayor, Mxolisi Kaunda, be entertained during a full sitting of council and not a hybrid or virtual sitting.
ActionSA is pleased that today the High Court in Pretoria decided to set aside the frivolous report into me during my time as the Executive Mayor of the City of Johannesburg.
ActionSA has written to the National Director of Public Prosecutions of South Africa, advocate Shamila Batohi, to alert her that we have asked that investigating officer (IO) in Tony Kadzadi’s building hijacking matter in Ekurhuleni be removed.
ActionSA has taken the initiative to propose a power-sharing government in the eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality, as we can no longer allow residents to be subjected to such impertinence from the African National Congress (ANC).
ActionSA congratulates Al Jama-ah councillor, Thapelo Amad, on his election as the City of Johannesburg Mayor with the support of ANC and EFF councillors and would like to vow that we will be a constructive opposition within the council.
Limpopo’s political new kid on the block, ActionSA, has emerged as the biggest winner in the three-horse highly contested Ward 10 by-election in Moletjie, Limpopo Province. Without a branch in Ward 10, ActionSA persuaded John Hlongwane to take membership of the party and stand as a candidate in the 25 January 2023 by-election.
Mount Fletcher Police Station is a sad reflection of the state of policing in this province. The state of police vehicles in the yard of the station is not properly fenced and the charge office/reception area is easily accessible from the street with no security provision.
ActionSA is consulting its legal team about whether Police Minister Bheki Cele and the South African Police Service’s (SAPS) failure to answer more than seven million 10111 emergency calls amounts to negligence for placing South African lives at risk.
ActionSA thanks former City of Johannesburg mayor Mpho Phalatse for her service to the people of Johannesburg, helping to bring change to the more than five million people of the city who voted to keep the ANC out in the 2021 elections.
ActionSA is extremely proud of the work its MMCs and caucuses did in the cities of Johannesburg, Ekurhuleni and Tshwane in the little more than a year that we have been in government, where work was well underway to deliver on the promises made in our 2021 Local Government Election Manifesto to fix our cities.
Following further negotiations yesterday between the Patriotic Alliance and the governing coalition in Johannesburg ActionSA can confirm that talks have failed, and the multi-party coalition will face motions of no confidence without the majority to defend Mayor Mpho Phalatse.
ActionSA is extremely concerned by the apparent overreach by the City of Ekurhuleni Speaker of Council, Cllr Raymond Dlamini, who attempted to block a motion of no confidence in himself and the whip of the council, Keta Shandu.
