There are few things more painful than looking into the eyes of a mother who has spent decades on a government housing waiting list while watching someone else occupy the home that was meant for her family. It is a pain I have witnessed too often. It is the pain of broken promises, stolen opportunities and a system that has, for far too long, failed the very people it was created to serve.

ActionSA has noted the Democratic Alliance’s latest press statement by Cllr Jacqui Uys attempting to blame Executive Mayor Dr Nasiphi Moya for the return to work of the City of Tshwane’s Chief Financial Officer, Mr Gareth Mnisi.

Today, ActionSA delivered a memorandum to the National Prosecuting Authority’s (NPA) Head Office in Pretoria, calling for urgent action to ensure accountability in the Lily Mine tragedy.

The latest developments surrounding calls for the resignation of Johannesburg MMC for Community Development, Thapelo Amad, are about far more than the future of one political office-bearer. They expose a deeper crisis that has come to define governance in South Africa’s economic heartland.

ActionSA welcomes a ruling by the Labour Court which struck down an attempt by Tshwane municipal officials, implicated by investigations into the Rooiwal tender award to Edwin Sodi, to halt disciplinary proceedings against them.

ActionSA Joburg Mayoral Candidate, Herman Mashaba, conducted an oversight of the electrification project at Shalazile Informal Settlement in Denver.

ActionSA has written to the Executive Mayor of the City of Mbombela Local Municipality following the municipality’s continued failure to complete and commission two boreholes in Hlalakahle Trust, eNsikazi, leaving residents without reliable access to clean and safe drinking water.

ActionSA can reveal that the Department of Sport, Arts and Culture spent almost R31 million on its delegation and associated programmes linked to the 2026 FIFA World Cup.

ActionSA has launched a full probe into Resolve Communications’ client, UPL South Africa’s recent R17 billion infrastructure deal involving Infrastructure South Africa, an entity of the Department of Public Works and Infrastructure, despite the company’s alleged central role in one of South Africa’s most devastating environmental disasters.

The City of Johannesburg’s public spaces exist for the benefit of residents, not criminal networks, unlawful occupation or the collapse of governance.

ActionSA welcomes the decision by the Gauteng Department of Human Settlements to evict unlawful occupants from government-funded housing. This reaffirms the principle that public housing must be allocated to South African citizens and in compliance with legislation.

ActionSA is deeply concerned by the Gauteng Department of Health’s misplaced human resource priorities.

Few issues generate as much frustration among Johannesburg residents as the City’s billing system.

ActionSA will tomorrow, Monday, 13 July 2026, announce the launch of its probe into a major multinational operating in eThekwini that is responsible for one of the municipality’s most devastating ecological disasters and is involved in a multi-billion-rand government infrastructure deal.

ActionSA has officially announced a further group of mayoral candidates for key municipalities across Limpopo, each ready to take up the fight to fix broken municipalities and restore accountable, effective governance across the province’s municipalities.