NATASHA MARRIAN: Political party funding: can spending caps deliver more transparency?
Will parties still splash as much cash to woo voters when there is this kind of scrutiny of their finances?
19 June 2025 - 05:00
Is it time for South Africa to look at imposing spending caps on political party election campaigns?
Political funding was once a murky world of donations, where money flowed freely and opaquely from private donors into party coffers. Voters were none the wiser about the source of cash to their preferred party — and all the major parties wanted to keep it that way. ..
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