Mcebisi Jonas says SA party funding is at the core of SA’s crisis
Former deputy finance minister Mcebisi Jonas says SA is a country in crisis and that party funding is at the core of corruption. He was speaking at the Open Book Festival in Cape Town on Thursday. Jonas said the crisis was part of a global phenomenon but that his party‚ the ANC‚ was struggling to provide solutions. "There are lessons we are learning very fast as a country. One of them is that we gave too much power to political parties ... [we are in a] party democracy." In addition he voiced concern that public representatives ultimately accounted to their political parties. Jonas said the phenomenon was not only an ANC one but was the case even with opposition parties where leaders were cracking the whip against members not toeing the party line. This is one of the reasons party funding should be transparent: "Party funding is at the core of corruption and state capture." He said the problem of capture ran deep — even at local government level and in all provinces. Jonas called fo...
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