ActionSA has expressed disappointment with President Cyril Ramaphosa’s speech on unlawful immigration, describing it as weak and reactionary, claiming it fails to handle what the get together calls the migration disaster attributable to the ANC and perpetuated by the Authorities of Nationwide Unity (GNU).
In a press assertion issued on June 7, 2026, ActionSA President Herman Mashaba mentioned the President had failed to supply a transparent shift in strategy. The get together says mass deportations and an pressing enhance in enforcement capability are wanted to cope with unlawful immigration.
In accordance with ActionSA, the president has merely repackaged failed and outdated speaking factors that characterize the ANC’s longstanding incapacity to safe South Africa’s borders and successfully cope with unlawful immigration.
The get together additionally criticized Mr Ramaphosa for refusing to interact with the media once more after his speech. ActionSA mentioned South Africans are entitled to solutions as to what, if any, actual variations there are within the introduced measures. As a substitute, they argued, the president averted scrutiny and repeated insurance policies that did not resolve the disaster.
ActionSA additional acknowledged that any efforts to extend enforcement efforts can be ineffective so long as border companies stay underfunded, underequipped and under-resourced.
The get together accused the federal government of responding to the anger of international governments fairly than dealing with the implications of its personal failures. The report mentioned some international governments had been selecting to flaunt, keep away from duty and misrepresent South Africans’ requires pressing and significant immigration reform.
Mr Mashaba mentioned unchecked unlawful immigration positioned a major social and financial burden on South Africa. He added that South Africans have each proper to demand safe borders, enforcement of immigration legal guidelines and an immigration system that serves the nation’s pursuits.
ActionSA concluded that makes an attempt to denigrate these considerations would do nothing to resolve the difficulty.
ActionSA is a South African political get together based in August 2020 by outstanding businessman and former Johannesburg mayor Herman Mashaba.
The get together was created as a substitute for South Africa’s main political events and positions itself as a practical, action-oriented motion to restore what it calls a damaged political system.
