Action SA leader Herman Mashaba has announced two new appointments in the party’s leadership.
This follows an anti-xenophobia march by the newly-established Kopanang Africa on Saturday.
ActionSA on Thursday afternoon announced Hannes Coetzee has jumped ship and will be contesting the May by-elections under the green banner.
ActionSA leader Herman Mashaba said the DA should take ownership for its own problems and electoral decline.
Some DA members raised concerns at a meeting that one of the immediate threats facing the organisation is not the ANC or the EFF but instead, one of its coalition partners.
It's widely expected that founder and president of ActionSA, Herman Mashaba, will announce former DA federal chair, Athol Trollip, as his latest recruit.
Last month, at the time that he was introducing former DA Midvaal Mayor Bongani Baloyi as a new member, party founder and president Herman Mashaba told journalists he was trying to land a big fish.
Zille was reacting to ActionSA's claims that its coalition partners are shortsighted for refusing an EFF proposal for its councillors to support the multi-party governments across Gauteng's metros.
Its leader Herman Mashaba told journalists at a briefing on Monday on the state of their coalitions that it seemed there was no commitment to building a stable coalition in the city east of Johannesburg.
Speaking at a press briefing on 7 February 2022, ActionSA national chairperson Michael Beaumont and its president Herman Mashaba said they were worried about developments in the Ekurhuleni metro. Mashaba and Beaumont said should the coalition government in the metro not survive, the ANC would regain control of it.
In a statement via his political party, Mashaba said he sent a letter to Speaker Vasco da Gama on Sunday and that his resignation would be effective as of 28 February.
Eyewitness News understands that Monday’s briefing will give details of how tensions between the two have continued making the task of running Ekurhuleni an uphill battle.
The leader of this newcomer on the political circuit is said to be burdened by the day-to-day load of attending to council while also trying to grow the party.
The ActionSA leader added that people should take care of themselves. This as the country experienced a deadly start to the festive season.
The metro had been without mayoral committee members since parties such as ActionSA, Freedom Front Plus, UDM and EFF supported the DA to become the leading party.
ActionSA leader Herman Mashaba - whose mayoral ambitions were crushed - has confirmed the two parties met on Monday to discuss MMCs in Johannesburg, Tshwane and Ekurhuleni.
The cracks are beginning to show in the lead up to the Johannesburg metro council after the DA announced that it would not support ActionSA leader Herman Mashaba's nomination for the mayoral position.
The U-turn comes after the party held a meeting of its federal executive to discuss coalition agreements for the City of Tshwane, Nelson Mandela Bay Metro and Joburg.
