ActionSA: sources

Every fact on the ActionSA page with its full citation: the document, the page or section, and the date. The dates things were last checked live here rather than on the page itself. Candidates for the 4 November 2026 election are on the IEC’s certified candidate lists and the party’s website.

Leader shown: Herman Mashaba, President, since August 2020. Source: ActionSA leadership page, 10 April 2026

Founded: 29 August 2020. Source: ActionSA registers with the IEC, Statement by Herman Mashaba, President, 17 September 2020: 'following the launch of the party on 29 August 2020', 17 September 2020

The header tiles use the IEC results and the offices listed under Results and offices below.

What it promises

Manifesto shown: Let's Fix South Africa: ActionSA 2026 Local Government Election Manifesto (launched 26 September 2026 at Johannesburg City Hall, Johannesburg; 78 pages).

The five are the first five items of the first list of the manifesto's own commitments, leaving aside any list inside a foreword or leader's message, in the manifesto's own order. Taken from 'Our Offer', p. 3, items 1 to 5 of 10.. The short heading on each commitment is the site’s plain-language label; the quoted words are the manifesto’s own.

Where it stands

Water and electricity

No published position found in the documents checked, as at 13 October 2026, on: Where a municipality cannot keep the water running, it should hire a private company to run its water system.

Housing and land

No published position found in the documents checked, as at 13 October 2026, on: The law should make it quicker to remove people who have recently moved onto land without permission.

Crime and policing

Foreign nationals

Jobs, grants and tax

No published position found in the documents checked, as at 13 October 2026, on: Yearly increases to the national minimum wage should be no more than about the rate of inflation.

Councils and government

No published position found in the documents checked, as at 13 October 2026, on: Parties should be required by law to make women at least half of their candidates.; Provincial governments should be scrapped, with their work handed to national government and municipalities.

National questions

No published position found in the documents checked, as at 13 October 2026, on: The courts should keep the power to cancel a law that breaks the Constitution.

Where it leans and party similarity

The dials and the radar use the positions listed above; each dial is the average of the party’s positions on its statements. Statements behind each dial: Economy: 6 of 7 statements; Services: 4 of 4 statements; Redistribution: 5 of 6 statements; Order and borders: 3 of 4 statements; Where power sits: 3 of 4 statements.

Party similarity is scored the way the quiz scores a person, on the statements where both parties have a published position: IFP: 16 shared statements; DA: 23 shared statements; FF Plus: 20 shared statements; PA: 15 shared statements; ANC: 22 shared statements; MK: 16 shared statements; EFF: 22 shared statements.

Results

National elections: share of the national ballot. Local elections: share of the proportional-representation ballot across all municipalities.

2024 provincial vote

Source: IEC 2024 Provincial Election, Results Report - Eastern Cape

Provincial legislature seats in 2024: 5 across the nine legislatures.

Offices

Offices as at 13 October 2026. Mayoralties may change after the 4 November 2026 local election; this page is updated once the new councils have met.

In its own words

The site applies no ideology label of its own; the quotation is the party’s own description of itself, from its founding document, constitution or values page.

Source: ActionSA Interim Constitution, as amended 05 December 2025, Chapter One, Foundational Principles, clause 1.2.3, last sentence, p. 4

Facts

Funding

Totals, April 2021 to March 2025: public funding R3.9 million; declared donations R105.9 million.

Parties must tell the IEC about any donor who gives more than R100,000 a year (R200,000 a year since August 2025). Smaller gifts are not made public. Parties with seats in Parliament or a provincial legislature also receive public money from the Represented Political Parties' Fund (renamed the Political Representatives Fund in 2024), shown as public funding. Neither figure is the party's total income. The 2024/25 year is the latest covered by an IEC annual report; the IEC's quarterly reports for April 2025 onwards are on the IEC's political funding page, and these figures are updated when the next annual report appears.

Reports: Political Party Funding 2022 Annual Report, 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022; IEC Political Party Funding Annual Report for 2022/23, as reported by Cape Times/Sunday Independent...; Political Party Funding Annual Report 2024, 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024; Political Funding Report 2025, financial year ended 31 March 2025; IEC quarterly disclosure statements Q1 to Q4 2022/23.

Note: the 2022/23 public funding figure is as the press reported it from the IEC's annual report, to one decimal place in millions, because that report could not be opened, so the four-year total may be out by up to R100,000; the 2022/23 donations figure is the sum of the IEC's four quarterly statements.