ActionSA leader Herman Mashaba claims his party was punished by voters in the May 2024 general elections. Image: Timothy Bernard / Independent Newspapers
ActionSA leader Herman Mashaba claims that his party was “punished” by voters in the May 2024 general elections, however, he said the party will bounce back stronger in the upcoming 2026 local government elections. Speaking in the aftermath of last year’s highly contested elections, Mashaba claimed that ActionSA, launched in 2020, had overstretched itself. “I think we took the blame and accepted the results. At the time, a three-and-a-half-year-old party contesting all nine provinces was too much.
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