An open Letter to the People of South Africa by ActionSA Parliamentary Chief Whip, Lerato Ngobeni MP.

ActionSA has written to Mpumalanga MEC for Health Sasekani Manzini, demanding urgent intervention following an oversight visit I conducted at Sister Mashiteng Clinic in Mhluzi Ward 18. 

ActionSA strongly condemns the brutal and senseless killing of former two-time world boxing champion Zolani “Last Born” Tete, who was reportedly gunned down outside his home in Mdantsane, Eastern Cape.

Any resident of Tshwane who votes for the DA and Cilliers Brink is no different to a rural Eastern Cape resident voting for the ANC, an MK supporter voting for its opposition to corruption or voting for the PA in Beaufort West for Gayton’s promise to turn the town into Dubai.

ActionSA has today laid a complaint with Parliament’s Ethics Committee following a parliamentary reply received in July 2026, which revealed that Minister of Small Business Development Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams benefited from a R41,000 car sponsorship from Chinese vehicle manufacturer Dongfeng between October and November 2025.

ActionSA has filed its papers in the North Gauteng High Court against the South African Police Service (SAPS) for what the party deems to be a politically driven whitewash to shield members of the Presidential Protection Service (PPS) for their role in the Phala Phala cover-up.

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.