ActionSA set to hold first elective conference
While ActionSA has permanent local, provincial, and national structures, all its leaders were appointed and not elected.
ActionSA supporters at the party's manifesto launch at Ellis Park, Johannesburg 23 March 2024. Picture: @ActionSA/X
JOHANNESBURG - After more than four years in existence and having participated in two elections, ActionSA says it will finally have its first elective conference.
The party said it had not decided on a date yet, however, it committed to having the conference within nine months before the 2026 local government elections.
While ActionSA has permanent local, provincial, and national structures, all its leaders were appointed and not elected.
ActionSA national chairperson, Micheal Beaumont, said the party does have internal democratic processes in place.
"We have a very clear roadmap towards an elective conference taking place in the first quarter of next year. We have initiated as a senate a number of processes that have the value chain leading to branch launches and AGMs that ultimately will determine the representation to that elective conference," said Beaumont.
Meanwhile, ActionSA said there is no "premeditated outcome" on its review process to decide whether to stay in the Tshwane governing coalition or not.
This is despite the party’s regional leader, Jackie Mathabathe telling the media last week that the marriage between ActionSA and the Democratic Alliance (DA) in Tshwane was over.
ActionSA and the DA have been governing the capital city since 2021 through a multiparty coalition which also involves three other parties.
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Over the next few days, the party said it will be travelling to several townships in Tshwane to speak to residents about the service delivery record of the current governing coalition.
"At the end of the day, you must remember that ActionSA is the party in that coalition government that has the most representation in the townships of Tshwane and we find ourselves accounting for governance and performance issues in those communities that our partners frankly don’t have to and this is something we are concerned about and we are going through a process to determine," said Beaumont.
Beaumont said the senate, the party's highest decision-making body will have a final say on whether they stay or leave the Tshwane coalition.
The senate is due to meet next week.