Mashaba: ActionSA still going strong in Gauteng despite Baloyi’s exit and fired councillors

Speaking to TimesLIVE, Mashaba said despite the recent turmoil within the party, membership growth had not been dented.

He said the party had launched three branches in Tshwane and Soweto in the past week.  

“ActionSA is growing from strength-to-strength, no doubt about that. We have had new positive outcomes in the recent weeks.”  

With five councillors fired in Tshwane in a few months, Mashaba said he had no regrets about the party’s decision to terminate membership of the councillors.  

“All the traitors that voted with the ANC, we got rid of them. We are a political party that is decisive and people who are found to work against the party being sent by the ANC to come and disrupt us, we flush them out of our system and move on,”  he said.

Mashaba said he was proud of the hundreds of supporters who supported the party’s Human Rights Day event in Sharpeville on Tuesday.  

He told supporters they had an opportunity to restore human rights to poor communities in the upcoming elections.   

“Next year, as we commemorate three decades of democratic government, we will do so with nearly 12-million South Africans without jobs and about 25-million citizens dependent on some form of social support,” he said. 

“The ANC government has failed to provide a better life for all and abandoned the promise of our constitution of an inclusive and prosperous future for our country.   

“The 2024 elections offer South Africans the best possible opportunity to replace the corrupt and dysfunctional ANC with an ethical coalition government that will reignite the promise of 1994 and restore the basic human rights the victims of the 1960 Sharpeville massacre fought for.”