
I Will Not Apologise for Believing Government Must Build Its Own Capacity
There are some policy questions on which political parties can legitimately disagree.

There are some policy questions on which political parties can legitimately disagree.

ActionSA North West has today submitted written questions to the newly appointed MEC for Education, Dr Desbo Mohono, seeking urgent answers on the 2 346 vacant teaching posts recorded in the North West as of 30 June 2026.

Oversight visits have exposed serious operational failures within Operation Prosper following a joint oversight visit by the Joint Standing Committee on Defence and the Police Portfolio Committee in the Western Cape.

ActionSA condemns the eThekwini Municipality’s wasteful decision to appeal the landmark Pietermaritzburg High Court judgment ordering it to fulfil its constitutional obligation to provide residents with clean and safe water.

ActionSA Johannesburg will be heading to the Public Protector to lodge a complaint against the City of Johannesburg pertaining to the unjustified delay in handing over the Johannesburg International Transport Interchange (JITI) to its intended beneficiaries.

ActionSA North West notes Premier Lazarus Mokgosi’s latest reshuffle of the Provincial Executive, with Dr Desbo Mohono appointed MEC for Education, Wessels Morweng moved to Arts, Culture, Sports and Recreation, and Virginia Tlhapi taking over Community Safety and Transport Management.

ActionSA is deeply concerned about the Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) from Statistics South Africa that reveals that Johannesburg lost 28 000 jobs between April and June 2026.

ActionSA is deeply concerned by the latest Quarterly Labour Force Survey released by Statistics South Africa, which shows that 361,000 fewer South Africans were employed at the end of the first half of 2026 than at the start of the year.

ActionSA calls on the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) to urgently issue a nolle prosequi certificate to the families of the three deceased Lily Mine workers, following its decision not to institute criminal proceedings arising from the Lily Mine tragedy.

ActionSA welcomes the proclamation by the COGTA minister of 4 November as the election date, and re-iterates its readiness to contest the 2026 LGE and repair South Africa’s broken municipalities. The party stands ready for these elections, having focused its efforts into a long-term ground campaign that began soon after the 2024 National and Provincial Elections.

Following our urgent intervention in May regarding a network of unaccredited private schools operating in the Ekurhuleni region, ActionSA is pleased to announce a significant breakthrough in our fight to protect vulnerable learners and parents.

ActionSA has submitted questions for written reply to the Mpumalanga Department of Public Works, Roads and Transport following allegations from residents of Vezubuhle in Thembisile Hani Local Municipality regarding delays in employment opportunities linked to the SANRAL R573 Moloto Road upgrade project.

Today, ActionSA Joburg Mayoral Candidate, Herman Mashaba, welcomed over 200 disillusioned African National Congress members in Thembelihle, Ward 8, Lenasia.

ActionSA is deeply saddened and outraged by the destruction of a family home in Siyathuthuka Enkanini in Belfast, Ward 1, after what appears to have been a catastrophic failure by the Emakhazeni Local Municipality Fire and Rescue Services.

ActionSA calls on the Ekurhuleni City Manager, Kagiso Lerutla, to effect immediate termination of the employment of suspended Ekurhuleni Deputy Chief, Julius Mkhwanazi.