PARLIAMENTARY HEARINGS
IEC advocates sanctions for party-funding offences
The IEC says sanctions should be carefully considered as part of any new set of rules on SA’s largely unregulated party funding
Parliament should pay particular attention to sanctions to be imposed on transgressors when developing policy on funding and donations, the Electoral Commission of SA (IEC) has told the ad hoc committee on private political party funding. Unlike many other democracies, SA remains largely unregulated when it comes to funding of political parties by private persons and organisations. IEC deputy chairman Terry Tselane told the committee on Thursday that sanctions should be carefully considered as part of any new set of rules to ensure that action was actually taken against transgressors in the fair enforcement of the law. "If private funding is regulated, it would be worthwhile to revisit provisions aimed at blocking parties from investing in private interests using allocated funds. It’s not advisable that conditional funding be made available to nonrepresented parties," said Tselane. He mentioned the Political Finance Act, which covered aspects of party and candidate finance. The IEC ...
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