ActionSA is proud of the achievement by its six members of Parliament.
ACTIONSA is proud of its performance in its first year in Parliament.
The political party, which was established in 2020 by Herman Mashaba, a former mayor of Joburg and DA member, contested the national elections for the first time in 2024.
ActionSA’s chief whip, Athol Trollip said the party stands proud of the achievements of its Parliamentary caucus during the first term, outperforming larger caucuses on multiple fronts and, more importantly, demonstrating the impact a committed minority party can have in serving the people of South Africa.
“Importantly, ActionSA is represented by six members of Parliament and to maximise our representation we adopted a strategic approach to ensure comprehensive engagement and coverage across the 34 Parliamentary committees.
“By carefully dividing each MP’s time across a minimum of three committees, ActionSA continues to achieve the broadest possible exposure to every critical discussion and decision impacting South Africans,” he said.
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He clarified that their approach makes it impossible for any ActionSA MP to maintain full (100%) attendance in a single committee as there are inevitably conflicting committee meetings.
“However, this is offset by the fact that while an ActionSA MP may be absent from one committee, they are guaranteed to be participating in another, as permitted by the rules,” said Trollip.
He said that ActionSA has implemented a clear internal performance monitoring mechanism to ensure that its MPs not only fulfil their constitutional obligations as Parliamentarians, but also exceed them through continuous individual oversight visits across South Africa, maximising their time outside of Parliament by engaging with citizens on critical issues affecting their communities and bringing those testimonies back to the corridors of Parliament, as well as committee meetings and plenary sittings.
He emphasised that there’s no greater evidence of the party’s effort this term can be found than in the fact that, despite having only six MPs, each with just three weekly opportunities, they submitted 101 official Parliamentary questions, the same number as the official opposition, which boasts 10 times as many MPs.
“Furthermore, ActionSA stands as the only minority party to deliver representations on every budget review report, every motion, every debate and every opportunity for members statements.
“ActionSA demonstrated its commitment to accountability by being the first political party to host a press briefing presenting a report of our Parliamentary Caucus’s 100-day performance, which importantly also featured the launch of ActionSA’s GNU Performance Tracker, a comprehensive index designed to monitor and hold accountable South Africa’s government of national unity (GNU).”
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