ActionSA is pleased to welcome Mpho Steve Baloyi as a new Councillor to our City of Tshwane caucus, where he will help to drive our commitment to a pro-poor governance.

ActionSA welcomes the tabling of the long-awaited report into the feasibility of insourcing cleaners and security guards at the City of Ekurhuleni today, in line with ActionSA’s election promise to insource contracted workers in municipalities.

ActionSA believes the recent cabinet reshuffle by North West Premier, Bushy Maape, is not intended to improve service delivery, but instead to make way for recently elected ANC Chairperson, Nono Maloyi, who was recently appointed as a member of the Provincial Legislature (MPL).

It is with extreme elation that ActionSA in Limpopo welcomes the arrest of the ANC Mayor of Sekhukhune District Municipality and former Municipal Manager of Elias Motsoaledi, who were arrested this morning in Groblersdal in connection with the VBS scandal.

ActionSA notes the abysmal second quarter crime statistics as released earlier today by the Minister of Police, Bheki Cele.

ActionSA today met with the Speaker of Tshwane, Cllr Murunwa Makwarela, and handed over a complaint detailing the alleged contraventions of the code of conduct levelled against Executive Mayor, Randall Williams.

ActionSA notes with great concern the water losses experienced by the eThekwini Municipality reaching up to an astounding 56% of all tap water it buys – mostly from leaks and water theft, which costs eThekwini close to R5 million a day.

ActionSA is concerned about the indifference of the Tarkastad Police Station’s leadership to the neglect what is a notoriously scarce resource in the Eastern Cape.

ActionSA notes reports relating to the suspension of eThekwini Municipality’s Head of Supply Chain Management, Andrew Petersen, after failing to execute his duties diligently.

The ActionSA welcomes Councillor Kgosietsile Jairus Kgosiemang as our Member of the Mayoral Committee (MMC) for Housing and Human Settlement in the City of Tshwane.

ActionSA has today written to Kopanong Municipality Mayor, Xolani Tseletsele, resquesting that he make public a plan to rescue the Municipality from total collapse.

ActionSA notes and welcomes the recent Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) decision declaring former President Jacob Zuma’s medical parole unlawful.

ActionSA extends an open invitation to all organisations and stakeholder groups who have been vocal about the sewage crisis in eThekwini to join our legal application as amicus curiae (a friend of the court).

ActionSA rejects the contemptable efforts by President Ramaphosa and his spokesperson, Mr Magwenya, to placate South African anger and frustration over rolling blackouts through their regurgitation of the same empty promise that “there are a range of initiatives that are already under way that will make load shedding a thing of the past.”

In a live broadcast panel discussion hosted by News24 DA Gauteng Provincial Leader, Solly Msimanga, made the shock revelation that the DA has polled its supporters and concluded that their supporters want the DA to go into coalition with the ANC.