Concourt rules info on private political funding must be public
The Constitutional Court has upheld a ruling by the Western Cape High Court which declared the Promotion of Access to Information Act unconstitutional.
Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng agreed with the court saying that the Act, in its current form, has limitations and needs to be amended by Parliament so that people can access information on political parties' private funding.
Campaign group, My Vote Counts, went to court to get political parties to reveal who their private donors are. Mogoeng said this morning that that information's crucial to voters.
"For every citizen to be truly free to make a political choice including which party to join and which not to vote for - or which political cost to campaign for or support.
Not only must the information be held in one form or another. It must also be reasonably accessible to potential voters," the Chief Justice said.