Johannesburg – ActionSA President Herman Mashaba has announced a merger agreement with two political parties – the Azanian Independent Community Movement and the Creatives Congress Movement.
“Today marks yet another milestone in this journey, as community-rooted parties from across the provinces join under the ActionSA banner, bringing our total representation to nearly 150 public representatives,” Mashaba announced on Monday, 26 January 2026.
“And this is just the beginning.
“It is with that… that I am pleased to announce that today, ActionSA will be joined by the Azanian Independent Community Movement and the Creatives Congress Movement.“
Mashaba recalled that when ActionSA was launched in 2020, just over five years ago, “we envisioned building a party that would represent all South Africans, from rural communities and townships to urban centres”.
He added: “We built this party on that vision because we understand that fixing South Africa would be impossible if we confined ourselves to speaking to certain communities at the exclusion of others”.
Mashaba said, looking back, he was proud of what ActionSA has achieved.
“ActionSA’s trajectory is now defined by exceptional growth in both rural communities and urban centres.
“The proof of this is our first by-election victory in Ward 7 in Ramotshere Moiloa Municipality in the North West in October last year, where ActionSA unseated the ANC in their historic rural stronghold.
“While in the heart of the City in Johannesburg, Ward 130, ActionSA nearly tripled its support to 22.66%, placing us second only behind the ANC, and beating both MK and the EFF.”
Mashaba said the ActionSA victory in Ward 7 relied on a simple strategy of uniting and consolidating opposition political parties rooted in communities.
These parties, despite not having a broad national footprint, are often the most in touch with local needs and best placed to fight for the interests of their communities.
“For decades, our communities have endured a system broken by failed establishment political parties that are either incompetent, corrupt, trade in broken promises, or guilty of all of the above,” Mashaba said.
“To bring an end to this sickness, ActionSA has made it clear that our focus is on uniting a diverse group of political parties under our Green Umbrella Project, where, under a single banner, we are giving communities a unified voice and a real chance for change.”
