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ELECTORAL MATTERS AMENDMENT BILL ENTERS PARLIAMENT’s FAST LANE
- 07 February 2024
- Parliament
- SA Legal Academy
The Electoral Matters Amendment Bill is apparently being processed simultaneously by the National Assembly’s Home Affairs and the NCOP’s Security & Justice Committees – possibly with the intention of fast-tracking its passage through Parliament.
Tabled in December 2023, the Bill proposes consequential amendments to a raft of legislation in anticipation of ‘the introduction of independent candidates and independent representatives in the National Assembly and provincial legislatures’.
Provisions focusing on amendments to the Political Party Funding Act, 2018, include the introduction of measures:
- informed by recommendations in the Zondo Commission of Inquiry report on state capture, and
- making an offence of certain donations-related actions.
On 6 February 2024, the two committees were briefed on stakeholder submissions received when the Bill was opened for public comment shortly after being tabled. Another four-hour joint meeting is scheduled for 9 February 2024, when the two committees are expected to hear responses to these submissions from the Department of Home Affairs, the Independent Electoral Commission and the Department of Communications & Digital Technologies among others.
Published by SA Legal Academy Policy Watch