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FILE | Political parties posters for the 2014 Elections.
My Vote Counts (MVC) says it will write to President Cyril Ramaphosa to request that he release the full record of his reasons for signing into law amendments to the Political Funding Act earlier this month.
Ramaphosa assented to doubling the upper limit of donations to political parties from R15 million to R30 million.
The threshold for disclosure of donations is up from R 100 000 to R 200 000. This follows Parliament’s passing of the regulations in May this year.
The President has passed the legislation despite a pending Western Cape High Court judgment on the matter.
The Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) had challenged the constitutionality of the Public Funding Act, including the limits and the President’s powers to make a final determination.
MCV’s Senior Researcher Joel Bregman says, “We’re obviously considering our options at the moment and chatting to our lawyers, but what we will be doing is writing to the President to ask him to release this information.”
“I mean, PAIA (Promotion of Access to Information Act) would be the formal process we might have to adopt, but we just are going to be requesting that he release this in the interest of transparency. There’s PAIA, there’s also PAJA, the Administrative Justice Act. So, we do have mechanisms through which we can approach this,” Bregman adds.
Ramaphosa signed off on changes to the Political Funding Act that roll back transparency. Donations up to R200k are now hidden. Annual cap doubled to R30m. Parliament ignored its own budget office’s research and advice! #MoneyInPolitics
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