ActionSA leader Herman Mashaba has given Mineral and Petroleum Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe 60 days to honour his commitment that his department would retrieve the three miners’ bodies currently languishing in the bowels of the Lily Mine in Barberton, Mpumalanga. Mashaba warned that if Mantashe fails to act, his party will proceed independently to recover the remains of Solomon Nyirenda, Pretty Nkambule and Yvonne Mnisi, who were trapped when their container collapsed during an implosion on 5 February 2016, leaving…

ActionSA has frowned at the DA’s motion of no confidence against the Mayor of the City of Johannesburg, Dada Morero from the ANC, and the Speaker Nobuhle Mthembu from its ranks. The party’s provincial chairperson, Funzi Ngobeni, says this is another opportunistic ploy aimed at exploiting a city already in deep crisis. He added that there is no denying the deep governance crisis that has gripped the City of Johannesburg, as basic services are failing, infrastructure is crumbling, and residents…

The leader of ActionSA, Herman Mashaba, took another jab at the DA today, saying the scrapping of the VAT increase was achieved by parties outside the government of national unity (GNU), not by any court action. Mashaba was speaking in Sandton on Thursday, April 24, where parties including the ANC, Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), BOSA and others briefed the media following the government’s decision to scrap the increase. This came after DA Federal Chairperson Helen Zille and other party members…

ActionSA, the kingmaker party that helped the ANC to pass the 2025-2026 budget without the support of its coalition partner the DA, says it would withhold its support if the VAT increase proposal is implemented from 1 May 2025.  The party’s parliamentary leader,  Athol Trollip, says they still have the cards to block the move. He was briefing the media today, April 3,  following yesterday’s heated budget sitting where it appears that the ANC dribbled ActionSA by promising not to…

ActionSA has become the latest political party to voice its displeasure against secessionist Phil Craig, the British born national who is leading the fight for the Western Cape to cede from the rest of South Africa.  The party’s Parliamentary Chief Whip, Lerato Ngobeni has written to Dr Leon Schrieber, the Minister of Home Affairs, urging him to reject an application for citizenship by Craig on the basis that he is causing disunity among South Africans. This was after Craig was…

ActionSA’s quest to bring smaller parties with public representation under one roof ahead of the 2026 Local Government Election, is gaining momentum. Party leader Herman Mashaba has announced that several regional parties and individual councillors have joined the alliance in Limpopo, known as the “Green Umbrella”.  He said three regional parties with a total of five councillors, the Capricorn Independent Community Activists Forum (CICAF) with two councillors in Polokwane, the Magoshi Swaranang Movement, with three councillors in Polokwane and Lepelle…

In an unprecedented move since the dawn of democracy in 1994, the South African government has cancelled Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana’s 2024/2025 budget speech due to policy disputes within President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Government of National Unity (GNU). The governing African National Congress (ANC) and its grand coalition main partner, the Democratic Alliance (DA), could not agree on the proposed 2% increase in the Value-Added Tax (VAT) from the current 15% to 17%.  The postponement, announced during a Parliamentary sitting in…

The South African Communist Party (SACP) has vehemently opposed alleged plans to hike value-added tax (VAT) from 15 percent to 16 Percent when Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana tables the 2024/2025 budget on Wednesday. The communist party says the fact that the mooted move was reported by some media houses appears to form part of a wider propaganda campaign driven by a certain circle within the National Treasury.  “This circle is pushing to increase VAT further after it was hiked from…

The national chairperson of ActionSA, Micheal Beaumont has written to the Public Protector asking her office to probe its former senior member in Newcastle local municipality in northern KwaZulu-Natal for possible abuse of power. Beaumont’s request came after almost a week the Herman Mashaba led party fired Faizel Cassim as its member and chief whip in the municipality. The party claimed that Cassim did not declare a conflict of interest as the owner of Newcastle Industrial Launders CC (NIL), a…

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…