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ActionSA says it will explore all possible avenues to challenge the latest extension of the state of disaster by Cogta minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma.

ActionSA says it will explore all possible avenues to challenge the latest extension of the state of disaster by Cogta minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma.

"If we scapegoat foreign nationals, we only deflect blame and public anger from where it should be directed – the SA government," said Herman Mashaba.

ActionSA national chair Michael Beaumont said on Wednesday the party had elected councillor Derrick Kissoonduth as its new caucus leader in Tshwane.

ActionSA national chair Michael Beaumont said on Wednesday the party had elected councillor Derrick Kissoonduth as its new caucus leader in Tshwane.

Action SA leader Herman Mashaba is calling on South Africans to direct their frustration over undocumented foreign nationals to the government, not foreigners.

ActionSA leader Herman Mashaba said the DA should take ownership for its own problems and electoral decline.

Interim ActionSA Eastern Cape chair Athol Trollip refused to join the party two years ago because he was “irritated and disappointed” that former DA leaders Herman Mashaba and Mmusi Maimane could not do the “natural thing” by joining hands and working together. Trollip, speaking in East London on Tuesday, said he had initially been approached by Mashaba to join the party in December 2019, ahead of their official launch in August the following year.

Some DA members raised concerns at a meeting that one of the immediate threats facing the organisation is not the ANC or the EFF but instead, one of its coalition partners.

“Is this war in Ukraine a joke to our minister? What a shame!” Mashaba said.