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…

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…