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The South African Electoral Amendment Bill seeks [7] to allow independent candidates to contest the national and provincial elections, introduce a more proportional representation system, enhance the independence and impartiality of the Electoral Commission, and improve the transparency and accountability of political party funding. It also ...
In the 2015 matter of My Vote Counts v Speaker of the National Assembly, the non-profit My Vote Counts approached the Constitutional Court of South Africa with an application to compel the Parliament of South Africa to pass legislation that would oblige political parties to disclose the sources of their private funding.
In particular, the Promotion of Access to Information Act 2 of 2000 (PAIA) regulated the section 32 right to know and provided for citizens to request information about the sources of political parties' private funding. My Vote Counts contended that PAIA was not sufficient to fulfil Parliament's constitutional obligation, because it did not ...
Political party funding is a method used by a political party to raise money for campaigns and routine activities. The funding of political parties is an aspect of campaign finance . Political parties are funded by contributions from multiple sources.
A little after 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, congressional leaders dropped a 1,547-page stopgap spending bill to fund the government through March. We will not insult your intelligence—we haven’t read ...
He is an advocate of political party funding transparency and worked hard to get the Political Party Funding Act passed by parliament. Valli describes the act as "the single biggest improvement to South African democracy since the adoption of the Constitution in 1996”.
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New Nation Movement NPC and Others v President of the Republic of South Africa and Others, [2020] ZACC 11, is a decision of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, handed down on 11 June 2020, which declared that the Constitution requires that citizens be allowed to stand for election to the National Assembly and provincial legislatures as independents without having to join or form a ...