This week, our lawyers wrote to political parties to inform them that accepting any donation above R15 million and the failure to record and disclose any donation are both unlawful, any funds received in contravention of the upper limit will be required to be returned, and such donations are being accepted and spent at the political parties’ risk.
For the sake of our democracy, we must guard against assaults on our political party funding laws. Click on the link below to read the letter.