ActionSA President Herman Mashaba has asked the business rescue practitioner of the Mpumalanga mine in which three workers perished eight years ago for permission to recover their remains. Mashaba said his party had written to RC Devereaux and the Department of Minerals and Energy for the green light to hire professional mining rescuers to retrieve the bodies of Pretty Nkambule, Yvonne Mnisi, and Solomon Nyirenda. The trio were trapped in a collapsed container at the Lily Mine near Barberton in…

ACTIONSA President Herman Mashaba has denounced President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Government of National Unity (GNU), saying his party would never join it because it would mean working with a “criminal ANC”, and a “dishonest and arrogant” Democratic Alliance (DA) which pays lip service to the fight against corruption.   The former Joburg mayor said the DA joined forces with the governing party because it wanted power, positions and “to control the ANC” rather than serve the people of South Africa.  In a…

The families of the three mineworkers who died during the tragic collapse of Lily Mine in Barberton, Mpumalanga, have agreed to hand over the power of attorney to allow ActionSA president Herman Mashaba to sue the state and the mine owners. On Tuesday, relatives representing Solomon Nyirenda, Pretty Nkambule, and Yvonne Mnisi signed the legal documents authorizing Mashaba to appoint attorneys who will pursue both civil and criminal litigation against those found at fault. The signing ceremony took place at…

The Democratic Alliance (DA) in Mpumalanga and ActionSA are on a collision course over maladministration allegations dating back 20 years ago. This week, DA member of the provincial legislature, Trudie Grovè-Morgan, called on Mandla Msibi, the MEC for Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, to launch an investigation into ActionSA’s provincial chairperson, Thoko Mashiane. According to Grovè-Morgan, Mashiane was embroiled in a R45 million sports facility project that failed to take off in 2003, said the DA MPL. ActionSA dismissed the…

ActionSA in Limpopo has raised concerns about a coal tender aimed at supplying coal to a number of hospitals that do not have boilers to enable power plants to generate electricity through the production of high-pressure steam. In a leaked internal document that African Times has seen, senior executive leaders within the Limpopo Department of Health were addressing an issue involving a coal supply tender involving 12 hospitals. The document, authored by the department’s chief director of infrastructure management Pandelani…

The North West government has rejected claims that it failed to spend almost R500 million on services in the dilapidated parts of the province in the past financial year.  This comes after ActionSA leader in the province, Kwena Mangope, released a statement alleging that the provincial government was to return R419 million to the Treasury before the end of March. “ActionSA is concerned that the North West government’s underspending of its budget will lead to poorer quality roads, worse healthcare…