ActionSA lodges complaint with IEC against EFF, MK for alleged under-declaration of donations
In a media briefing on Monday, ActionSA said it believes both parties are not compliant with the Political Party Funding Act.
Action SA Michael Beaumont at the IEC ROC in Midrand. Picture: Karabo Tebele/702
JOHANNESBURG - ActionSA has lodged complaints with the Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) against the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) and uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party for alleged under-declaration of donations.
In a media briefing on Monday, ActionSA said it believed that both parties were not compliant with the Political Party Funding Act.
Since the act was signed into law in April 2021, parties are required to disclose any donations they receive amounting to R100,000 and above.
Since 2021, the EFF has disclosed just under R4 million in donations while the MK Party, which was founded last year, has disclosed just one donation, totalling R380,000.
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ActionSA’s national chairperson, Micheal Beaumont, said these figures could not be accurate.
He said both parties ran big expensive election campaigns, filling out stadiums and arenas
"Two political parties that if you look at their declarations and their election campaigns, the one does not explain the other and there is no way on earth that an institution can safeguard a financial investigative process like the Party Funding Act requires if the IEC is not going to pay attention that for example MK disclosed R380,000 worth of donations in a campaign that must have cost them more than a R100 million. If we are not going to take that fact seriously, then we must really ask ourselves what is the point of the Party Funding Act and whether our Constitutional Court and intentions have been grossly undermined?" said Beaumont.
Both the EFF and MK Party have not responded to queries from Eyewitness News.