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Much has been said and written about ActionSA’s recent decisions to suspend leaders and councillors, with some blaming us for being heavy-handed or our president Herman Mashaba being dictatorial, but it is essential that to guard our survival we take a disciplined approach, writes ActionSA National Chairperson Michael Beaumont.

ActionSA’s legal bid to compel the eThekwini municipality and relevant government departments to sort out the sewage crisis in the metro is going ahead.

ActionSA's Ekurhuleni caucus on Thursday vowed to reject the motion of no confidence in DA mayor Tania Campbell despite having left the DA-led multiparty coalition.

The DA's Tania Campbell was ousted through a motion of no confidence on Thursday.

An ecstatic Cilliers Brink was hoisted into the air by supporters after being declared the new Tshwane mayor on Tuesday.

The new City of Tshwane mayor seeks to unite council and prioritise service delivery.

“If you are going to start politics of removing the speaker, you must know that you are never going to find peace, ” said the EFF's Obakeng Ramabodu.

Messages of condolence have poured in following the death of KwaDukuza municipality's deputy mayor, Thulani Ntuli, who died in hospital after collapsing at the municipal premises on Wednesday.

The IFP has taken a shot at the EFF over what it calls “political miscalculation of the EFF leadership” for abandoning a bi-party coalition in KwaZulu-Natal and choosing to work with the ANC instead.

The two previous attempts were marred by caucus breaks, delays, termination of membership of various councillors, confusion over the filling of their vacancies and contention over voting methods, among other issues.