Cilliers Brink Accuses ActionSA Mayor of Being ANC Puppet
Politics Writer
– December 3, 2025
3 min read
Former Tshwane mayor Cilliers Brink has accused his successor, ActionSA’s Dr Nasiphi Moya, of acting as a political proxy for the African National Congress (ANC) in the capital and of failing to act against her ANC deputy over a damaging forensic report.
Yesterday, The Common Sense reported that the forensic report had found that deputy mayor and member of the mayoral committee (MMC) for finance Eugene Modise failed to disclose his ongoing financial interests in a firm that had won a R300 million tender from the city.
Speaking to The Common Sense yesterday, Brink said: “Mayor Nasiphi Moya has had this forensic report that shows that her deputy mayor and finance MMC, Eugene Modise, is profiting from a contract in government, that he didn’t declare his interest in this company Triotic Protection Services, and he certainly hasn’t divested that interest, so that he is in continual breach of the code of conduct for councillors. And yet she's done nothing with this information.”
Modise is a co-founder and shareholder of Triotic Protection Services, which in 2022 was awarded a R300 million security tender from the City of Tshwane. The law firm that conducted the forensic investigation found that he failed to disclose this business relationship after joining the city administration, and noted that while he claims to have sold his stake to Neo Mafodi on an instalment basis he continues to receive payments and has not provided documentary proof of the sale. The report recommended that the council institute disciplinary proceedings against him.
After the 2021 local elections Tshwane was run by a Democratic Alliance (DA) led coalition that included ActionSA. That arrangement collapsed in 2024 when ActionSA broke with the DA and struck a coalition deal with the ANC, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), and several smaller parties. The DA has since accused ActionSA of handing Tshwane back to the ANC and of betraying voters. It was on the back of that new coalition that Dr Nasiphi Moya was elected mayor.
