by Sheilan Clarke | 4 Mar 2019 | Electoral systems, General, Party finance
MVC News We bring to you what has been brewing at MVC and in political and electoral spaces more broadly in the last few months. Please share this newsletter with your friends and colleagues. What’s new… Political Party Funding Act On 22 January 2019,...
by Sonke Mzana | 7 Dec 2018 | Electoral systems, General, Party finance, Political Parties
If we had sufficient legislation in place: all the corruption that has happened could have been prevented. The Political Party Funding Bill, State Capture Inquiry, SARS Commission of Inquiry, VBS bank heist and Vincent Smith are our top political stories for this...
by Sheilan Clarke | 8 Oct 2018 | Funding, Party finance
Let’s face it — political corruption in South Africa has reached epidemic proportions. Every day we are finding out just how our elected leaders have been shamelessly taking what is rightfully ours. If anything, the State Capture Inquiry reveals, but yet also...
by Sheilan Clarke | 28 Sep 2018 | Funding, Party finance
MVC and Right To Know have set up a petition that asks the President to sign the Political Party Funding Bill before the 2019 elections. It is our democratic right to not just vote but to make an informed vote. The information of political parties’ private donor...
by Sheilan Clarke | 10 Aug 2018 | Funding, Party finance, Political Parties
Dear President Cyril Ramaphosa We write to you as civil society organisations working in the interest of upholding democracy and improving our political system through greater transparency. The gap in political party financial disclosure and monitoring regulation in...
by admin | 15 Jun 2018 | Funding, Party finance
Political Party Funding Bill: A closer look at the loopholes [Opinion piece] By: Zahira Grimwood, Party Funding Researcher at My Vote Counts The Political Party Funding Bill is before the National Council of Provinces (NCOP). Criticism on the Bill in its current form...
