Invisible party funding the 'Achilles heel' of SA democracy, IEC hearing told
1 August 2019
The invisibility and anonymity of political party funding and funders is the "Achilles heel" of South Africa's constitutional democracy, the public hearing into party funding heard on Thursday.
The Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) began its hearings into the draft regulations for the Political Party Funding Act (Act 6 of 2018).
IEC chairperson Glen Mashinini started by stating that the commission had received more than 4300 written submissions on the matter - a strong gauge of the "public pulse".
While the IEC was busy with the May 8 general elections, they did not stop the work on this Act, he said, adding that the IEC was requested by Parliament to take on this process.