By Lehlohonolo Lehana.
It is all systems go for the ActionSA’s election manifesto launch to be held at the Ellis Park Indoor Arena in Johannesburg on Saturday.
ActionSA will be contesting the May 29 general national and provincial elections for the first time since the party was formed in 2020.
Briefing the media, the party’s national chairperson Michael Beaumont said they welcome the opportunity to launch their manifesto last.
The media briefing was held at the Ellis Park Arena (Previously called Standard Bank Arena).
“We have had the chance to witness the political establishment misread the national mood spectacularly by making grandiose promises that lack credibility.”
“This has set ActionSA up to focus not just on what an ActionSA government will deliver, but also to communicate credible plans on how this will be implemented so that South Africans can believe in an alternative to the failed establishment,” he said.
Beaumont said the manifesto will be grounded in their prioritised plans, including growing the economy and creating jobs through private and public sector programmes, implementing inclusive economic empowerment and a universal basic income grant, the blueprint and timeline for ending load shedding, achievement of law and order, with a focus on corruption, substance abuse, and gender-based violence, as well as the securing of our borders.
“ActionSA is pleased that these plans will be led by our president who remains one of very few party leaders who have any kind of track record in government, and even fewer with a positive track record. South Africans have been failed, time and again by political rhetoric which has never translated into tangible improvements in the lives of South Africans,” he said.
Recently the party unveiled its “shadow cabinet”, called “Team Fix South Africa”, listing candidates who would be in government should the party win.
“The advent of Team Fix South Africa, ActionSA’s shadow cabinet of 18, has seen this process now handed over to these highly experienced and knowledgeable South Africans.”
Many of our Team Fix South Africa members will be co-presenting the national manifesto in their speeches relating to their portfolios. We are proud to be led by a president such as Herman Mashaba who knows the value of teamwork, added Beaumont.