ActionSA is concerned that while the ANC-EFF coalition fights over details contained in the City of Ekurhuleni’s budgetary framework, the urgent need to provide dignity to the city’s employees through insourcing and service delivery to the residents continues to decline.

ActionSA believes the charges levelled against John Block in R51 million tender fraud during his time as Northern Cape Member of the Executive Committee (MEC) in 2003 highlights of the ANC both in the province and in South Africa have been long overdue and were driven by self-enrichment and stealing.

ActionSA welcomes the eThekwini Metro’s decision to approve the recommendation made by the MEC for CoGTA to remove Mzimuni Ngiba as Ward Councillor for Ward 101.

The Minister of Police, Bheki Cele released crime statistics from 1 January 2023 and 31 March 2023. Free State has shown a slight improvement in reported crime stats for the fourth quarter of 2022/23 that were released by Minister Cele.

ActionSA welcomes the newly commissioned Limpopo Central Academic Hospital that is set to be constructed in Polokwane.

ActionSA believes South Africa’s continued deteriorating crime statistics highlight how the country is further transforming into a gangster state, and the need for urgent policy and leadership reform to turn the situation around.

ActionSA will write to the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) to investigate the circumstances that led to newborn babies at Mahikeng Provincial Hospital in the North-West being placed in cardboard boxes instead of incubators or cribs.

ActionSA welcomes President Cyril Ramaphosa’s appointment of Madam Justice Mahube Betty Molemela as President of the Supreme Court of Appeal and believes her appointment will bring further strong leadership to the country’s judiciary. 

ActionSA has written to Financial Sector Conduct Authority (“FSCA”) Commissioner, Unathi Kamlana, to request clarity on the conflicting stories relating to Thabo Bester and his bank account that seems to have been opened and operational despite only obtaining a valid Identity Document (ID) recently.

ActionSA in the Western Cape has lodged complaints with the South African Human Rights Commission on behalf of a group of Khayelitsha foster mothers against the various government departments for the way in which their actions and inactions compromise foster children in Khayelitsha, Cape Town.

ActionSA rejects the recommendation made by eThekwini Municipality to host city official’s client meetings at The Pencil Club, an elite members-only club located in uMhlanga, which will cost eThekwini ratepayer R16 000 per day, excluding refreshments.

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.