By Lehlohonolo Lehana.
ActionSA is already talking about 2024 general elections and wants to replace the Democratic Alliance (DA) as the official opposition for both provincial and national elections.
The party’s interim senate, its highest decision making body, held a planning session over the weekend.
ActionSA has vowed to emerge as the second biggest party and in a position to lead a multi-party alternative to the governing party, the ANC.
Herman Mashaba in a statement said, importantly, what emerged is that 2022 must be the year of growth and momentum. The demonstration of this growth and momentum must arise from the continued effort to attract high-profile South Africans with demonstrable grass-roots activism, leadership track record, and an unwavering commitment to rebuilding South Africa as well as our strategic contestation of by-elections, many of whom are lining-up to join our organisation.”
ActionSA was founded by Mashaba, a former City of Johannesburg mayor, in 2020 and is yet to hold an elective conference.
His party was the biggest winner during the local government election results.
The party has been attracting high profile individuals in its fold, including former DA mayors Bongani Athol Trollip, who headed Midvaal and Nelson Mandela Bay municipalities respectively.
Future plans for the party include the establishment of a political academy to ensure that everyone joining ActionSA knows about its values and policies.
“Our structures must be urgently capacitated in the nine provinces with all provincial chairpersons and structures tasked with establishing wall-to-wall branches. Furthermore, the national leadership of the party will embark on a national tour over the next few months, added Mashaba.”