ActionSA has launched an investigation into UPL South Africa’s reported R17 billion biofuels and sustainable aviation fuel project in KwaZulu-Natal.
The party says it has concerns about the company’s dealings with government while it remains under scrutiny.
UPL came under fire after its chemical warehouse in Cornubia, north of Durban, was looted and set alight during the July 2021 unrest.
The blaze triggered a major chemical spill into nearby Indian Ocean, raising environmental concerns.
ActionSA Announces Probe into Wrongdoing by Major Multinational in eThekwini and Its Billion-Rand Government Dealings
Joint Press Statement by @ME_Beaumont and @AlanBeesley MP
ActionSA National Chairperson and Member of Parliament
DATE: 14 July 2026
RELEASE: Immediate pic.twitter.com/Lcom6Npo28— ActionSA KwaZulu-Natal (@ActionSA_KZN) July 14, 2026
ActionSA Chairperson Michael Beaumont says the party will use parliamentary and municipal oversight processes to investigate the matter.
“We have been meeting with communities in Blackburn village, they are experiencing very serious health issues. Five years later, the concern is this may be the very tip of the iceberg. From our point of view, the real concern here is that’s the very same Resolve Communications that represents UPL South Africa is also the very same Tony Leon that negotiates the DA’s entry into the GNU and ensure that they have the portfolio’s in this case of environment. Which is very key in the determination around environmental prosecutions of legislation which by the way there had been none since the start of the story.”
On the steps of eThekwini City Hall ActionSA has unveiled the latest scandal of Resolve Communications, this time in their representation of UPL SA that poisoned Durban.
And what consequences you ask?
A R17 billion Public Private Partnership under DA Minister Dean Macpherson. pic.twitter.com/ZIJSnRfEf3
— Michael Beaumont (@ME_Beaumont) July 14, 2026
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