Parties strain against Funding Act | Election | M&G

This week the ANC’s treasurer general, Paul Mashatile, called for the law to be reviewed during the sixth administration.

Political party funding has historically been contentious, but the state capture years have perhaps exacerbated this — particularly after the harrowing revelations before the state capture commission of inquiry about donations to the ANC from controversial services company Bosasa.ANC leaders from three provinces have also complained about a shortage of resources such as transport and T-shirts.

The Bill says individuals cannot donate more than R15-million each year, while donations for less than R100000 do not need to be declared. Mashatile said it was a good thing that the regulations had not yet taken effect, because this provided an opportunity to “review” the law, with a view to addressing some of the challenges brought about by its enactment.

“Now in practice this has proven to be true, that a lot of potential donors who are well-meaning South Africans who want to support multiparty democracy … are now concerned about possible victimisation by the governing party through the form of tenders or even South African Revenue Service audits,” Boughey said.

He said that although the intent behind the legislation was “intuitively good”, in a society like South Africa, where endemic corruption was pervasive, punitive measures such as those in the legislation were “dangerous”.

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