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SA political parties have a moral duty to prioritise buying local
By Opinion
Eustace Mashimbye
WHILE most people are focused entirely on the manifesto promises being made by the many political parties that will be contesting local elections in October (and of course, we should know who and what we are voting for), at Proudly South African we will have an additional interest in the parties’ activities.
Elections represent millions of rand spent collectively on campaigns and rallies. Millions of rand spent on T-shirts, caps, other give-aways, gazebos, posters and pamphlets, among many other promotional, some might say propaganda, items.
Under the Act, political parties will be required to, among other directives, divulge their sources and amounts of private and public funding they receive. (Photo: GCIS)
The new Political Party Funding Act will provide for more transparency, but can t guarantee that illegal party funding won t continue, the Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) said.
The IEC doesn t have the funds to immediately implement and enforce all the Act s provisions.
It also created a fund to which individuals and institutions could contribute at arm s length.
The funding of party projects by state agencies like intelligence could still recur in spite of a new law to regulate this more strictly, an Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) official said.