The 25th of January 2022 marked 1000 days since the affected Lily Mine families set up camp outside Lily Mine in protest against mine management who have proved unwilling to have the remains of the Lily Mine three retrieved from underground.
To mark the 1000 days, the families held a night vigil from 21h00 on Monday night crossing over to Tuesday morning at 06h00.
ActionSA’s Interim Senate concluded a three-day strategic planning process that has resolved that the party must emerge from the 2024 national and provincial election as the 2nd biggest party in South Africa only behind the ANC.
"The calibre, diversity and experience of ActionSA’s Senate has proven to be an essential factor in the success of the strategic planning process. We are blessed to have individuals who offer excellent insights and leadership to the critical responsibility that lies with ActionSA."
On Saturday the 5th of March, ActionSA was officially welcomed in the North West.
We could not have dreamed of a better launch in a province so desperate for ACTION.
Led by the inspiration Kwena Mangope, with powerful speeches from ActionSA leadership, we have made our intentions clear in the province.
Following our historic results in 2021, more South Africans than ever before have expressed a keen interest in joining the only growing organisation in South African politics.
This was proven once again when, in their first Student Representative Council (SRC) elections, the newly formed ActionSA Students’ Chapter won 4 out of the 7 seats at the Tshwane North TVET College, Rosslyn campus.
ActionSA has now delivered four SRC victories, and four SRC Presidents in Campuses across Gauteng.
Arising from Funzi Ngobeni’s appointment as a MMC for Roads and Transport in the City of Johannesburg, we had to look for someone to fulfil his former duties as the National Director of Operations. We came to the view that our Gauteng Provincial Chairperson, John Moodey, would be best placed to fulfil the vital function of supporting our structures in recruiting wall to wall branches across South Africa. John has a wealth of political experience and has led political structures for 2 decades.
This left a gap in the role of the Gauteng Provincial Chairperson, a critical function given what Gauteng will offer by way of electoral potential to ActionSA in 2024. For this role there could be no better choice than Bongani Baloyi. It is no secret that ActionSA intends to run Bongani Baloyi as our Premier Candidate for Gauteng in 2024.
On Saturday the 4th of June, ActionSA officially launched our Project to Fix the Eastern Cape and we were blown away by how well ActionSA has been received by the people of this beautiful province. Beyond the hundreds of actioners present at the launch in East London, we have seen structures launching in the cities of Nelson Mandela Bay, in the rural towns and villages of Ngcobo, Bizana, Umtata, Butterworth, Mount Ayliff and so many more. We are even seeing them where young people study at NMU, Rhodes University and Fort Hare.
Mbuyisa Makhubo was the young man pictured carrying Hector Peterson’s body in the photograph by Sam Nzima that went around the world revealing the brutality of the Apartheid state. Mbuyisa was pursued by the police in the days that followed and eventually disappeared without the Makhubo family ever knowing the truth of what happened to Mbuyisa to this day.
During the visit the Makhubo family conveyed their dismay of the state of unemployment that faces young people in South Africa today and how this betrays the memory and the sacrifice of those who stood up in 1976. The family particularly lamented how economic opportunity has become patronage issued by the ANC to those who are connected. The Makhubo family pledged their support behind ActionSA fully for the 2024 national and provincial elections.
President Herman Mashaba led a picket in front of the Department of Mineral Resources & Energy, Minister Gwede Mantashe’s Head Quarters in Sunnyside and handed over a memorandum of demands. He was joined by Director of Operations, John Moodey, National Spokesperson, Lerato Ngobeni, and Gauteng Provincial Chairperson, Bongani Baloyi.
"The lives of Pretty Nkambule, Yvonne Minis and Solomon Nyerenda matter. I just want to make it clear to Minister Gwede Mantashe and his Government that the Lily Mine Tragedy is not going to disappear until the container is retrieved."
We are proud to be the only political party in South Africa that was part of a case to be heard on 25 – 27 July to declare the regulations pertaining to mask wearing, gatherings and entry into SA as unconstitutional.
This us a real example & a historic moment which shows South Africans that government cannot act arbitrarily and that organisations like ActionSA are on hand to fight for the people of South Africa!
This was a victory for South Africa, our Constitution and the freedoms of the South African people.
ActionSA together with the Mentor family hosted a memorial service to honour the late ActionSA Senator and former Western Cape Provincial Chairperson Vytjie Mentor.
Vytjie’s passing has been a terrible loss for her family, for ActionSA and for South Africans of all walks of life. Aside from leaving a special mark on the lives of those around her, Vytjie lived a remarkable life in service to South Africa that we believed must be celebrated nationally through a memorial service.
The family was accompanied by ActionSA Senate Members led by Party President, Herman Mashaba.
In September, we congratulated the TUT Garankuwa student populace for entrusting the future of the institution in ActionSA Students Chapter. Student Chapter emerged with 6.1% overall. This makes it possible for us to dislodge the ANC-aligned SASCO and form a coalition student government.
This is an important milestone for ActionSA and our student representatives for having attained this seat in the council.
When ActionSA’s Senate resolved in February 2022 to contest all 9 provinces and nationally in the upcoming 2024 General Elections, ActionSA President Herman Mashaba set about the task of identifying strong, high-profile Provincial Chairpersons. By October 2022, all 9 seats had been filled.
After becoming the sixth largest party in the country, after contesting just six municipalities in 2021, ActionSA is gearing up to contest all nine provinces in 2024.
We are only just getting started!
It is unfortunate that ActionSA had to initiate legal proceedings before the eThekwini Municipality saw the need to act swiftly and repair damaged infrastructure. The infrastructure had been left to rot for the past 7 months without a coherent plan or concerted effort from the Municipality and other government departments to fix the problem.
We will continue to fight for the residents of eThekwini and affected stakeholders and ensure that the government delivers on their constitutionally mandated responsibilities.
We have pursued the matter since Siyabonga Mabila, 7, and Lawrence Tshwenu, 4, drowned in an unsecured quarry on 27 February 2021 just behind their homes in Skierlik informal settlement in Mamelodi, Tshwane.
This is a landmark legal victory for us, a Party that was launched just over two years ago.
We will continue to fight for neglected communities across the country!
We celebrated a ground-breaking day in KZN, as we welcomed leaders from different political parties, joining a common purpose to bring social justice, economic prosperity, ethical leadership and non-racialism to the people of KwaZulu-Natal.
President Herman Mashaba speaks to our exceptional growth and positive outcomes in 2022.
From securing leadership in all 9 provinces, to building structures in every corner of the country, this has been a year we can be proud of!
We also have a word from National Chairperson, Michael Beaumont, Chief Strategist, André Coetzee, and Dr Nasiphi Moya, Chief Director of Governance.
"2022 has ben an amazing year for ActionSA. But 2023 is going to be bigger, and it's going to be better!"
"ActionSA is a party grounded in dialogue and engagement. This principal remains central to our policy development approach."
"Our objective remains to keep ANC out of government. Hence we elected to support governments that exclude the ANC."
ActionSA is preparing to take the negligent eThekwini Municipality to court if they do not ensure that the water quality at all eThekwini beaches reaches acceptable levels.
The infrastructure renewal and maintenance of our sewer system is a fundamental function of a metro municipality, and the historic failure of this function is directly to blame for the malfunction of sewerage pump stations in various locations in eThekwini since the floods in April.
This is not merely a tragedy for the people of eThekwini or KwaZulu-Natal but for the whole of South Africa with our Durban coastline being a national treasure to be enjoyed by all South Africans.
The city faces a festive season where its hospitality industry and broader economy will be severely damaged by our beaches remaining closed over the festive season – traditionally a vital source of job-sustaining economic activity for eThekwini. This, alongside the inability of eThekwini residents to use their natural environment for economic, recreational, social and religious purposes necessitates our intervention.
ActionSA has reflected upon the past few months from a strategy point of view and concluded that too much time has been spent responding to the incessant political attacks launched against our party. This is something that we have sought to address because our goals can only be achieved through creating positive association and sentiment towards our party.
In this respect ActionSA has launched its latest campaign – Ready 4 Action. This campaign is aimed at generating a foundational level of knowledge about ActionSA across all 9 provinces. It will focus on ensuring that all South Africans, across all communities, cities and towns will know the fundamentals about us – who we are, where we come from, the aspirational story of Herman Mashaba, our new Provincial Chairpersons, our values that inform ActionSA and our vision for South Africa.
2.5 million leaflets have been produced in all of the different languages in South Africa and transported to the 9 provinces where scores of structures and volunteers have been prepared to driver this campaign. We will ensure that the campaign delivery is diversified to generate earned media, communicate powerfully through digital spaces but (most critically) be delivered in communities through direct voter contact.
This kind of campaign is essential to our plans for 2023 and 2024. If we can establish enough volume behind this campaign, we will have established a strong platform of awareness of ActionSA on which our policy offerings can effectively be delivered.
With your help, this campaign is reaching more and more South Africans.
ActionSA continues to grow across all provinces with every waking day and we are pleased that our offer and plan to fix South Africa is resonating with more and more South Africans. While the others protect the corrupt and assist them to avoid the rule of law, we are establishing branches and inculcating the culture of accountability, ethical leadership, respect for the rule of law and advocating for direct democracy.
Over the coming months, the leadership projects exponential growth and progress in the Limpopo Province with each regional leader expecting to launch branches every week.
The Northwest Province is currently embarking on massive daily recruitment drives and is moving to launch branches every week.
ActionSA is the only alternative for South Africans to get their dignity back. It is gratifying to be part of this well-oiled machine that is ready to unseat the ANC and provide ethical leadership to the people of South Africa.
People may argue that the Western Cape is just fine, that it is the best run province and that ActionSA should leave it alone and focus on other Provinces. But in the Western Cape voter turnout went down from 63% in 2016 to 48% in 2021. Why is that?
There are many communities in the Western Cape where people have literally been forgotten by all levels of government. I think of the Brackenhill Community in Knysna where the community still have to use pit latrines and bucket toilets despite the Constitution, the High Court, the Water Services Act and the by-laws all saying that they are entitled to basic sanitation.
ActionSA is not new to the Western Cape – we have incredible members and activists who are constantly working hard on growing our support base and launching new branches. Thank you to each one of you who have given so selflessly of your time, with so much passion, because you believe in ActionSA and the promise it holds. I am really looking forward to visiting every corner of the Province and working with all of you over the next year and a half.
An article published on IOL online has maliciously suggested that Herman Mashaba may leave ActionSA – the political party that he founded to Fix South Africa.
The article attempts to suggest that there is some kind of conflict within our leadership structure about coalitions. While ActionSA has initiated a review of our approach, and while I expect our Senate to debate this matter fully – there is no difference of opinion about the fact that coalition with the ANC is not an option we will consider. On this we are unanimous in our view.
Until South Africa is Fixed, I am Going Nowhere. ActionSA was established to be an alternative for the South African people. This remains my mission and that of every leader in our Senate.
This move follows a decision by ActionSA’s Senate to review our approach to all coalition governments in the Province. During the meeting, Senate emphasised that the Party would take a more pragmatic approach to coalitions.
Therefore, ActionSA has called on residents to tell us, either through our online form or through direct engagement with party officials, the position it should take in coalition governments to ensure government stability and better service delivery for all citizens.
ActionSA is cognizant of the distress coalition instability has caused South Africans, and therefore wants to ensure that the approach the party takes in the future is informed by the views of those that coalitions are meant to serve.
The Senate’s decision followed the recent breakdown in the multi-party government in Johannesburg and growing concerns for the stability of the coalitions in Gauteng.
ActionSA’s Senate believes that a need exists for coalitions to operate from a stable foundation that enables service delivery and sufficient continuity to reverse decades of a failed government.
Unstable coalitions, that are constantly on the brink of collapse, cannot effectively deliver services, which results in the most vulnerable being neglected.
It is also important that in the lead-up to the 2024 national elections, South Africans experience the difference coalitions can make in improving lives, thereby instilling trust in their ability to govern South Africa.
"I chose to join ActionSA, Herman Mashaba, because your vision is to bring South Africans together. I could never be part of any party that seeks to divide our people."
Zwakele Mncwango was announced as ActionSA’s KwaZulu Natal Provincial Chairperson on 17 October 2022.
Born in the town of Nongoma, Zwakele received a master’s degree in Business Administration from the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
He brings immense experience, serving as a Member of the KwaZulu-Natal Legislature since 2018. He served as the Leader of the Opposition in the KwaZulu-Natal Legislature from 2018 to 2019, and he was the Provincial Leader of the DA KwaZulu-Natal from 2015 to 2021.
He was also the party’s KwaZulu-Natal Premier candidate for the 2019 election.
Zwakele becomes the eighth provincial chairperson in ActionSA, with leadership already announced in Gauteng (Bongani Baloyi), Limpopo (Sello Lediga), Eastern Cape (Athol Trollip), North West (Kgosi Kwena Mangope), Free State (Patricia Kopane), Mpumalanga (Thoko Mashiane) and Nothern Cape (Andrew Louw).
This tremendous victory comes after the UCT Students’ Chapter was sanctioned by the Electoral Commission, our SRC candidates banned from campaigning and participating in political activities for a period of four (4) days during the 10-day elections campaign period.
The ActionSA Students’ Chapter NEC congratulates the Students’ Chapter UCT team on their hard work and the decisive victory delivered, with our candidates getting 8,424 votes overall.
ActionSA Students Chapter delegation consisting of the National Executive Council and UCT Campus Leaders, will engage with independent candidates who won, to form a stable and ethical coalition government that will serve the best interest of the students.
When Vasco da Gama was voted out as Johannesburg Speaker on 31 August 2022, it was the actions of only a few councillors within the coalition operating against their party mandates.
Those parties demonstrated their commitment to the coalition by firing those councillors and restoring (within days) the majority that voters gave these coalition parties in 2021.
However there was now a vacancy in the position of Speaker that needed to be filled.
EVERY party in the coalition supported a call for past leadership composition imbalances to be corrected and for the IFP to assume the position of Speaker – every party except the DA who stuck to a selfish stance of “the position is ours.”
The DA now want to argue the integrity of an agreement – that has previously been amended – as grounds for not accommodating the IFP. It has nothing to do with this. It was about stabilising coalitions (ironically to the benefit of DA Mayors).
The rationale of ActionSA and the coalition partners was to improve power sharing, deepen co-governance and stabilise the coalition. Parties like the IFP and PA were being pursued by the ANC and placing those parties in leadership of government would stabilise matters.
All coalition parties engaged the DA in a series of meetings to accommodate the IFP. In these meetings EVERY other party supported the change but the DA resisted it.
The PA warned the DA of the consequences of ignoring the coalition, but the DA refused to reconsider.
On the night before the vote the DA Gauteng Provincial Leader Solly Msimanga published an article calling other coalition partners “minnows and rent seekers”. This shows you how seriously the DA treats coalitions.
EVERY other coalition partner SUPPORTED the DA candidate for Speaker anyway in order to protect the coalition and despite the antics of the DA. By doing so, coalition partners did what the DA would not do – put the coalition and residents ahead of themselves.
That the PA left the coalition and gave the ANC a majority is not excusable from an ActionSA perspective. But make no mistake, it arose entirely from the arrogance, immaturity and stubbornness of the DA.
Following the collapse of the coalition in Joburg, two parties must shoulder that blame. The DA created the environment for a collapse and the PA walked out. It is pathologically dishonest for the DA to blame coalition partners for their inability to lead coalitions.
On the removal of the Mayor:
ALL Coalition partners (DA, ActionSA, IFP, VF+, ACDP, UIM), etc.) boycotted the sitting that saw Mpho Phalatse removed as we did not believe it was a legitimate and legal sitting of council.
ActionSA continues to grow across all provinces with every waking day and we are pleased that our offer and plan to fix South Africa is resonating with more and more South Africans. While the others protect the corrupt and assist them to avoid the rule of law, we are establishing branches and inculcating the culture of accountability, ethical leadership, respect for the rule of law and advocating for direct democracy.
Over the coming months, the leadership projects exponential growth and progress in the Limpopo Province with each regional leader expecting to launch branches every week.
The Northwest Province is currently embarking on massive daily recruitment drives and is moving to launch branches every week.
ActionSA is the only alternative for South Africans to get their dignity back. It is gratifying to be part of this well-oiled machine that is ready to unseat the ANC and provide ethical leadership to the people of South Africa.
On 26 September 2022, Andrew Louw was proudly unveiled as ActionSA’s Chairperson in the Northern Cape.
Andrew brings with him decades of experience as a public servant in the Northern Cape, and thousands of committed supporters.
Andrew has been the leader of the official opposition in the Northern Cape, a Member of the National Assembly of South Africa as the Shadow Minister of Labour, and a Premier Candidate in 2019.
Louw becomes the seventhprovincial chairperson in ActionSA, with leadership already announced in Gauteng (Bongani Baloyi), Limpopo (Sello Lediga), Eastern Cape (Athol Trollip), North West (Kgosi Kwena Mangope), Free State (Patricia Kopane), Mpumalanga (Thoko Mashiane).
After becoming the sixth largest party in the country, after contesting just six municipalities in 2021, ActionSA is gearing up to contest all nine provinces in 2024.
We are only just getting started!
"ActionSA is the only beacon of hope that can really bring change to South Africa"
We congratulate the TUT Garankuwa student populace for entrusting the future of the institution in ActionSA Students Chapter. Student Chapter emerged with 6.1% overall. This makes it possible for us to dislodge the ANC-aligned SASCO and form a coalition student government.
This comes after the Director of Student Governance and Leadership Development of TUT Garankuwa together with the independent election company made public the preliminary results which saw the emergence of ActionSA students chapter TUT Garankuwa attaining a seat in the Student Representative Council.
This is an important milestone for ActionSA and our student representatives for having attained this seat in the council.
Tshepiso Modiba, the National Convener of Students, has subsequently been deployed by the National Executive Council of the Student Chapter to engage with other student organisations in order to form a coalition government.
The leader of ActionSA Student Chapter at TUT Garankuwa Campus, Marvin Xiburi, has been identified as our preferred candidate SRC deployment.
We are proud to announce that Patricia Kopane has been appointed as the ActionSA Free State Provincial Chairperson entrusted with leading the province to the 2024 election and to deliver our offer for a better Free State.
As we work towards growing our organization nationwide, there is definitely no doubt that ethical leaders will add value our efforts to unseat the ANC who have allowed this province to languish in destitution for far too long.
The Free State remains one of the provinces that has been ravaged by high levels of corruption and gross mismanagement of state resources with many of its municipalities, including this Mangaung Metro being placed under administration as a result of unqualified, incompetent politicians of the ANC- most notably Ace Magashule.
This week, President Herman Mashaba and National Chairperson Michael Beaumont were on the ground in Bloemfontein, and were warmly welcomed by supporters and Actionairs!
This is the state of Bloemfontein, a city long-forgotten in a province destroyed by hyenas in government.
This province is in desperate need of leadership.
#LetsFixTheFreeState
ActionSA together with the Mentor family hosted a memorial service to honour the late ActionSA Senator and former Western Cape Provincial Chairperson Vytjie Mentor.
Vytjie’s passing has been a terrible loss for her family, for ActionSA and for South Africans of all walks of life. Aside from leaving a special mark on the lives of those around her, Vytjie lived a remarkable life in service to South Africa that we believed must be celebrated nationally through a memorial service.
The family was accompanied by ActionSA Senate Members led by Party President, Herman Mashaba.
Over the weekend, President Herman Mashaba and North West Provincial Chairperson, Kgosi Kwena Mangope welcomed our newest ActionSA member, Wilhelm Roche – an independent councillor in the Municipality of Kgetleng Rivier. Wilhelm beat the ANC with 54% in 2021.
ActionSA admires and welcomes strong individuals who serve communities and we will support Cllr Roche in his quest of continuing serving the community of Kgetleng River and Fixing South Africa.
"You don't have to wait 28 years for politicians to abuse us. We must vote them out!"
ActionSA is committed to making this coalition government work in the City of Tshwane because it is what the residents of this City demand from us. The residents of The Capital voted the ANC out following years of mismanagement, and we have a duty to the residents to ensure that coalitions do not give them more of the same.
To this end, we raised legitimate concerns with our coalition partners that the proposal for an unsolicited bid, in this regard, was riddled with questions of legality, and we owed it to the residents and ourselves to fully ventilate those concerns before bringing a proposal of this magnitude to Council.
Executive Mayor Randall Williams and the DA would like you to believe that ActionSA is opposed to ending the city’s reliance on the nation’s beleaguered energy utility.
ActionSA is committed to finding innovative and sustainable solutions to the electricity woes experienced in this country, but we do not believe that we must violate law and due process to achieve those ends. It is contained in our published policies, and we fought for independent power production to be a central and transversal priority of the multi-party coalition. To suggest otherwise is to deflect to avoid the discomfort of what this matter is truly about.
ActionSA is growing each and every day, laaunching branches all over the country!
In just over a week, ActionSA has launched branches in Emfuleni North in the Vaal, Golela in Zululand, eNgcobo in the Eastern Cape, Kgetleng in the North West, and more.
While the others protect the corrupt and assist them to avoid the rule of law, we are establishing branches and inculcating the culture of accountability, ethical leadership, respect for the rule of law and advocating for direct democracy.
ActionSA’s 2024 Campaign has begun, and we are readying ourselves to provide the kind of leadership that the people of our country deserve.
On the 9th of August, our structures across the length and breadth of the country celebrated our women!
President Herman Mashaba and Gauteng Provincial Chairperson Bongani Baloyi joined in on the Women’s Day celebrations event in Soweto.
"We gather here today to recognise & appreciate women’s political, economic and social achievements over the decades while acknowledging the much needed change in the system required to achieve equality"
"Inorder to be yourself you ought to know yourself"
This forms part of the party’s developmental efforts to attract a deep reservoir of talent to take ActionSA to new heights following our historic 2021 Local Government Elections.
ActionSA intends to contest every province in South Africa and that requires that our provinces be led by people with experience and those that share our values. Mpumalanga is no exception.
In the run-up to this announcement ActionSA traversed the province with our structures and it is evident that democracy is yet to reach the far recesses of this province and Thoko is committed to addressing this deficit.
We are proud to introduce you to the Chairperson of Mpumalanga, Thoko Mashiane.
"Who better to begin the work of unseating the ANC in this province than a former member of the ANC who has herself been the victim of malicious smear campaigns when she acted against corruption?"
"Any party that keeps the ANC in power by either defeating these motions or collapsing coalition talks, is a betraying the people of KwaDukuza."
After the ANC in the KwaDukuza collapsed the council meeting before the all important motion of no confidence could be heard, ActionSA has resubmitted their motion, but with a request for a secret ballot.
ActionSA is convinced that, given the chance to exercise their conscience, Councillors from the DA and ANC (who are under instruction to not support the motions) would support the removal of this failed government. This is especially true for Councillors from the DA whose communities support the removal of the ANC and yet have been instructed to not support the motions.
Should the Speaker refuse, ActionSA will proceed to the High Court in an urgent basis to force the Speaker to protect Councillors from the environment of fear, intimidation and pressure brought to bear from their party bosses.
The residents of KwaDukuza have spoken and, in their majority, they have elected to remove the ANC.
ActionSA is pleased at the result obtained in the by-election in KwaNobuhle in the Nelson Mandela Bay.
Having achieved 8% and becoming the third largest party in this ward in just seven weeks, it is clear that ActionSA continues to grow and that our offer is resonating with the people of NMB.
While it is our intention to win every election we contest, we are encouraged by this significant result in the Eastern Cape.
We will build on this momentum by taking our offer from city to city, province to province in anticipation of the 2024 General Election where we will continue to make meaningful gains and provide the people of South Africa with a real alternative.
We also congratulate Eastern Cape Chairperson, Athol Trollip, and the team for their exceptional work in what was traditionally an ANC stronghold.
We also thank our members in the Eastern Cape for their passionate commitment and enthusiasm.
This by-election was like no other because it was not just about the ward in which it took place, but is about the future of NMB as the leadership hangs in the balance between the ANC or themulti-party coalition.
As the City approaches 30 days water supply remaining, in the absence of any plan, the control of the City is all important to all of its residents who continue to lose faith in the ANC as evidenced by its double-digit decline in this ward.
"The lives of Pretty Nkambule, Yvonne Minis and Solomon Nyerenda matter. I just want to make it clear to Minister Gwede Mantashe and his Government that the Lily Mine Tragedy is not going to disappear until the container is retrieved."
This occasion is another milestone in a series of milestone’s for ActionSA. We are emerging as a party with national impact and we are developing structures, wall-to-wall, throughout South Africa that will deliver our 2024 offer to the doorsteps of all South Africans. We continue to build a party that is truly multi-racial, winning support in all communities across South Africa and we can demonstrate how ActionSA is growing rapidly in rural communities just like it is in the cities of our country.
Two years out from the 2024 Elections, we are delighted to say that the people of Limpopo will have, for the first time, a powerful alternative to the continued failure and corruption of the ANC.
This announcement takes places after the leadership of ActionSA has toured the province to consult our structures about this announcement.
Sello Lediga is a candidate that promises to take the incredible work that has been done to establish ActionSA in Limpopo and drive it to new heights.
"The crisis consists precisely of the fact that the old refuses to die, while the new struggles to be born."
Eastern Cape Actioners came out in numbers, with a renewed hope that South Africa can be fixed, under a new ethical leadership come 2024!
"South Africans need solutions, they need hope, and they need it from a political party that they can believe in and party that can win support away from the ANC."
On Saturday the 4th of June, ActionSA officially launched our Project to Fix the Eastern Cape and we were blown away by how well ActionSA has been received by the people of this beautiful province. Beyond the hundreds of actioners present at the launch in East London, we have seen structures launching in the cities of Nelson Mandela Bay, in the rural towns and villages of Ngcobo, Bizana, Umtata, Butterworth, Mount Ayliff and so many more. We are even seeing them where young people study at NMU, Rhodes University and Fort Hare.
Together, we are building a multi-racial party, diverse as the people of our country, that must be a home FOR ALL the people of our country. No other party can match these achievements as a party building a home for South Africans of all backgrounds.
“We contested the 2021 Local Government Elections in a limited fashion. We will now be contesting in ALL 9 provinces and we have structures growing across the length and breadth of Limpopo.”
“I am joining ActionSA today, officially. I am their member. From where I am seated, I see ActionSA as the only party that is serving the interests of our people at heart.”
“I am joining ActionSA today, officially. I am their member. From where I am seated, I see ActionSA as the only party that is serving the interests of our people at heart.”
Mbuyisa Makhubo was the young man pictured carrying Hector Peterson’s body in the photograph by Sam Nzima that went around the world revealing the brutality of the Apartheid state. Mbuyisa was pursued by the police in the days that followed and eventually disappeared without the Makhubo family ever knowing the truth of what happened to Mbuyisa to this day.
During the visit the Makhubo family conveyed their dismay of the state of unemployment that faces young people in South Africa today and how this betrays the memory and the sacrifice of those who stood up in 1976. The family particularly lamented how economic opportunity has become patronage issued by the ANC to those who are connected. The Makhubo family pledged their support behind ActionSA fully for the 2024 national and provincial elections.
ActionSA understands that its mission is to spread a message of hope to the millions of young people who have given up on a failed political system that has failed them. This message will convey the hope that a failed ANC government can be retired to the old age home of our history and replaced by a new agenda that serves young people and their futures.
Branch launches are a big part of expanding ActionSA’s footprint across the province in particular and the country generally as we proceed with #Project2024 campaign.
The people of North-West have suffered in silence for far too long. It is time to reclaim the Province from incompetent government officials who have held the province back for far too long and replace them with ethical and competent leaders who will prioritise the needs of society ahead of party-political interests.
Cyfersruil, Makapanstad, Mathibestad, Maubane (2 branches), Moeka, Mogogelo (2 branches) and Moral were all launched at one big event at the beginning of June.
We are proud to introduce you to our Nelson Mandela Bay ward 43 Councillor Candidate, Thadazwa Cholani.
Thandazwa has a proven track record of service to the community of KwaNobuhle, and her election as Councillor on 6 July would come at a time when the leadership of NMB hangs in the balance between the ANC or the multi-party coalition.
This by-election is like no other because it is not just about the ward in which it takes place. This by-election is about the future of Nelson Mandela Bay as the leadership hangs in the balance between the ANC or the multi-party coalition.
As the City approaches 30 days water supply remaining, in the absence of any plan, the control of the City is all important to all of its residents.
As it stands the by-election arises from a country wide pattern of ANC Ward Councillors being assassinated if they dare to challenge the ongoing corruption in their cities.
We are proud to be the only political party in South Africa that was part of a case to be heard on 25 – 27 July to declare the regulations pertaining to mask wearing, gatherings and entry into SA as unconstitutional.
The lifting of regulations will likely have the effect of the court case not proceeding as intended.
However, this us a real example & a historic moment which shows South Africans that govt cannot act arbitrarily and that organisations like ActionSA are on hand to fight for the people of South Africa!
This is a victory for South Africa, our Constitution and the freedoms of the South African people.
ActionSA is pleased to publicly announce that following Tshwane North College SRC Elections victory in 4 out of 6 campuses, ActionSA Students’ Chapter has now won President General of all 6 campuses.
In addition to winning President General, ActionSA Students Chapter won all executive positions of Secretary General, Treasurer General and Deputy Secretary General despite contesting for the first time.
As the Chapter National Executive Council (NEC), we convey our heartfelt congratulations to the newly elected President General and her council.
We believe that under her leadership, the student body of Tshwane North College will reach even greater heights. We are confident that they will become a solid voice of the students and hold the institution’s management and the Department of Higher Education accountable.
ActionSA Students’ Chapter NEC will provide sufficient support to all our SRC members to ensure that no student is left behind, because The Future Is Certainly Not a Mistake!
ActionSA recently celebrated phenomenal growth in the party’s first-ever by-election – contesting ward 96 in Tshwane.
The results in a hotly contested ward showed that ActionSA was the only party that registered growth, going from the 6.6% achieved in November 2021 to 22.3% the 5th largest party in the ward in 2021 to the 2nd largest now. The DA, VF Plus, EFF and ANC all recorded.
Of particular importance to ActionSA, was the achievement of support across all residents of the ward; a feature of our party that we celebrate, and which continues to set us apart from all other political parties. In this regard ActionSA registered 29% in the suburban areas of Doornpoort, we similarly won the Rooiwal Voting District in a predominantly black community.
We would like to express my gratitude to the residents of Ward 96 in Tshwane for their confidence in ActionSA, and we assure them that we will continue to serve the needs of their communities in Tshwane. This is only the beginning.
We have recently announced some very important changes in the key leadership structures of ActionSA. They changes arise directly from the need to align our Party towards the demands of the 2024 national and provincial election campaign from which we have committed to emerge as the 2nd biggest party in South Africa.
Arising from Funzi Ngobeni’s appointment as a Member of the Mayoral Committee for Roads and Transport in the City of Johannesburg, we have had to look for someone to fulfil his duties formerly as the National Director of Operations. We have come to the view that our Gauteng Provincial Chairperson, John Moodey, is best placed to fulfil the vital function of supporting our structures in recruiting wall to wall branches across South Africa. John has a wealth of political experience and has led political structures for 2 decades. His hands-on approach is exactly what will be needed in supporting ActionSA structures across the country.
This leaves a gap in the role of the Gauteng Provincial Chairperson, a critical function given what Gauteng will offer by way of electoral potential to ActionSA in 2024. For this role there could be no better choice than Bongani Baloyi. It is no secret that ActionSA intends to run Bongani Baloyi as our Premier Candidate for Gauteng in 2024. Bongani’s track record of excellence as a Mayor is unrivalled, he is young, dynamic and has a strong following in the Province. Bongani is well suited to leading the province and this will ensure that his campaign in 2024 is well supported at the grass-root level of the party.
ActionSA continues its important work of readying ourselves for the 2024 elections. The work of getting all 9 provinces of ActionSA structures ready to contest these elections is a massive undertaking and that that will require us to have the best people in the key functions of the party. I am absolutely confident that Bongani and John will deliver.
These sentiments would be incomplete without the required appreciation shown to Funzi Ngobeni, who remains on our Senate as a senior leader and advisor. Funzi was involved in growing our structures from a zero base in the run up to the launch of ActionSA and, in many ways, our structures currently in place bear his fingerprints. This is a contribution that will be etched into the ActionSA story.
ActionSA emerged from the by-election as the party registering the greatest growth result, with the exception of an independent candidate.
Increasing from 12.7% to 21.8% is a result that stakes ActionSA’s claim as the party that can challenge the ANC by winning across their support in sufficient numbers to challenge their political monopoly. This is a vital achievement in the effort to provide South Africans with hope that the political establishment has not previously provided.
This result also demonstrates how the ANC is collapsing. The ANC’s support in Soweto has gone from 89%, at its high-water mark, not to 31% in yesterday’s by-election. While ActionSA does not stand alone in driving this collapse, the truth is that places like Soweto no longer offer the ANC the protection of guaranteed support and will begin to drive their removal from power in 2024.
This result does not take place in a vacuum. Less than a month ago, ActionSA contested Ward 96 in Tshwane in a rural community in the north of Pretoria where ActionSA recorded an increase from 6% to 22%. It is precisely this feature of ActionSA, the ability to draw support across all communities and build a multi-racial support base, that sets us apart from other political parties in South Africa.
ActionSA is pleased to announce that Michael Shackleton, the DA’s Gauteng North Regional Deputy Chairperson, has resigned from the Democratic Alliance to join ActionSA.
Michael is 34 years old, and yet, has already risen to the rank of Deputy Chairperson of the Tshwane Region. He has served as a member of the National Assembly, a member of the Gauteng Provincial Legislature as Shadow MEC for Community Safety and as a Tshwane City Councillor.
The fact that the Deputy Chairperson of the DA in Tshwane is willing to resign as a member and as public representative of the Party that he served for 14 years, serves to demonstrate the extent to which the residents of ward 96 have been mistreated and failed by the DA.
ActionSA is proud to be attracting South Africans of the calibre of Michael Shackleton regularly since the start of 2022. This speaks both to ActionSA’s continued rise within South African politics as well as the continued collapse of the long-established political parties.
On Saturday the 5th of March, ActionSA was officially welcomed in the North West.
We could not have dreamed of a better launch in a province so desperate for ACTION.
Led by the inspiration Kwena Mangope, with powerful speeches from ActionSA leadership, we have made our intentions clear in the province.
Day-by-day, ActionSA is growing in every corner of this beautiful country.
This is the road to 2024. This is the journey towards fixing South Africa.
Athol was born and raised in the Eastern Cape. His political career dates back to 1980 in the PFP.
He and his family have deep roots within liberal politics in South Africa dating back to the United Party and equally deep roots in the province’s farming community.
Mr. Trollip will take up the vacant position of Eastern Cape Provincial Chairperson, where he will lead the establishment and growth of ActionSA’s footprint in the province.
"Athol is a brave South African that I came to respect immediately when I met him. He is principled and honest and one of those rare type of people in politics who says what he means and means what he says."
ActionSA’s will officially pursue a high court review of Parliament’s decision to exonerate Julius Malema for his remarks encouraging illegal immigration.
After receiving the decision, more than a year after the complaint was lodged, ActionSA believes that the finding that Malema’s remarks were “open to different interpretations” lacks any rational basis.
Members of Parliament swear an oath of office to uphold the law and defend the Constitution of South Africa!
We will never accept any MP who abuses their position to advocate for lawlessness in our country.
If the national assembly of our country will not act, ActionSA will do so without hesitation.
“So let the borders be open and if the gates are not going to be open for SADC, fellow SADC people please find a creative way this is your home, your families are here. There is no ways anyone is going to close you out here.”
When we learnt of the by-election in this ward in Soweto, we knew we had an important opportunity to demonstrate our ability to win wards from the ANC. It offers the ability to demonstrate our diversity in winning a ward from the DA in the north of Pretoria and taking another ward from the ANC in Soweto within 3 weeks of one another.
Our campaign has already hit full flight before any other party has launched. We have selected a dynamic 33-year-old woman, Dudu Ngubeni, who has a serious track record in community service of her own, taking after her father legacy on the ward. Within a very short space of time our teams have hit the streets to engage the voters of this ward, our posters are in the print and our telebanks have begun the work of identifying all ActionSA supporters in this ward.
Already the signs of our ability to win this ward are clear and voters are responding favourably to our campaign. Over the next few weeks, in the run-up to a 1 June election day, we will continue intensifying this campaign so that ActionSA can do what no other party ahs done in Soweto – take a ward off the ANC.
ActionSA is proud to announce Mr Hannes Coetzee as ActionSA’s Ward Councillor for the Ward 96 By-Election in the City of Tshwane to be held on 4 May 2022.
Hannes believed that the multi-party coalition that came into office in 2016 would deliver change to his ward but he watched in disbelief as matters did not get better for the residents of his ward, instead they regressed.
This ward that Hannes has served for so many years has been plagued by the ongoing Hammanskraal Water Crisis, unreliable supply of electricity and roads that are falling apart.
Hannes’ candidature is another significant moment for ActionSA. It represents that we are a party that can not only take high levels of support from the ANC but also attract people from across the spectrum in South Africa who are all driven by the need for action in their communities. In this regard I am confident that Hannes will make an excellent ActionSA Ward Councillor with his track record of excellent service to his ward.
President Herman Mashaba spent some time in Tshwane Ward 96 for the voter registration weekend and canvassing for our councillor candidate, Hannes Coetzee, ahead of the by-elections on the 4th of May.
While Hannes is one of the most qualified and distinguished candidates for a ward that I have ever met, it is features of Hannes’ commitment to community service that I find most compelling.
During our public hearings into the Hammanskraal Water Crisis last year, Hannes was the only elected representative who came to the inquiry and made representations. He did so in service to his community, doing himself no favour within his own party. Hannes spent the entire night last night at the sub-station that was down over the past 36 hours, and repeatedly since 2019, being there to coordinate with municipal officials and communicating to residents. The best indication arose from walking with Hannes through this community and the overwhelming response he receives from passers-by who recognise his community service transcending party politics.
This moment is an important one for ActionSA. We are the party carrying momentum out of the 2021 local government elections and we see by-elections as opportunities to publicly continue this growth and momentum to 2024. We will campaign night and day to win these wards so that we can build hope for South Africans that ActionSA can be a viable alternative to unseating the ANC in 2024.
The refusal of the South African government to denounce the Russian invasion of Ukraine places South Africa on the wrong side of history, together with a list of countries known for their human rights violations and disdain for democratic principles.
While we do not view Russia or the Russian people as an enemy, in the end, President Putin’s show of force against the Ukrainian people must be seen as nothing less than tyrannical.
If you believe that rights should be the core concern of international relations, then you have no choice but to stand in support of the Ukrainian people as well as the international community to avoid the international catastrophe that is war.
"People first, politics last. If you believe that rights should be the core concern of international relations, then you have no choice but to stand in support of the Ukrainian people as well as the international community to avoid the international catastrophe that is war."
"My Council seat should be filled by someone who is fully available to the needs of the residents of Johannesburg."
Tuesday, the 25th of January 2022 marked 1000 days since the affected Lily Mine families set up camp outside Lily Mine in protest against mine management who have proved unwilling to have the remains of the Lily Mine three retrieved from underground.
To mark the 1000 days, the families held a night vigil from 21h00 on Monday night crossing over to Tuesday morning at 06h00.
Since the beginning of ActionSA’s involvement in this matter, we committed to keeping the story of Lily Mine vivid and alive in the minds of the South African public.
