A ruling by the High Court in Cape Town ordering Parliament to amend the Promotion of Access to Information Act (Paia) to allow for the disclosure of private political party funding information is a final confirmation that political parties can no longer refuse to reveal their funders. The ruling handed down by the court on Wednesday, came about a week after Parliament’s ad hoc committee looking into the funding of political parties released its Draft Political Party Funding Bill. It could force political parties and independent candidates to disclose their donors. But it remains to be seen whether it will be necessary for Parliament to amend Paia given that an ad hoc committee it set up in June to look into the issue of regulation of party funding was already formulating guidelines on the disclosure of private donors and the funding of political organisations. The draft political party funding bill, released by the committee last week, entails among other measures a ban on donation...
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