ActionSA says new relationship with ANC won't stop it from holding them to account

JOHANNESBURG - ActionSA said its newly formed working relationship with the African National Congress (ANC) would not stop it from holding the governing party to account.

In a media briefing on Tuesday, ActionSA announced it was initiating court action against the Electoral Commission for failing to investigate the ANC’s R102 million debt settlement agreement with Ezulweni Investments.

In December 2023, Ezulweni and the ANC reached an out-of-court settlement for the debt after the printing company got a court order to attach the assets of Luthuli House.

ActionSA and the ANC are in a governing coalition in the Johannesburg municipality.

Both parties also look set to enter into another co-governing agreement in Tshwane.

However, ActionSA’s national chairperson, Micheal Beaumont, said those have nothing to do with the ANC not being transparent regarding its debt settlement agreement with Ezulweni Investments.

"The working relationships that say we will be jeopardising a relationship if we raise a matter of a rule of law, are not working relationships that ActionSA would ever involve itself in and we have been consistent in that."

ActionSA said it had reached out to the ANC’s treasurer-general’s office regarding this matter, however, it had been ignored.