Recording, preservation and disclosure of records on private funding of political parties
(1) The head of a political party must— (a) create and keep records of— (i) any donation exceeding the prescribed threshold that has been made to that political party in any given financial year; and (ii) the identity of the persons or entities who made such donations; (b) make the records available on a quarterly basis, as prescribed; and (c) keep the records for a period of at least five years after the records concerned have been created.
(2) For the purposes of this section— (a) “donation” means a donation as defined in section 1; (b) “financial year” means a financial year as defined in section 1; and (c) “prescribed threshold” means the prescribed threshold contemplated in section 9(1)(a), of the Political Party Funding Act, 2018 (Act 6 of 2018).
What this means in practice
- Inserted by the 2019 Amendment Act (in force 1 April 2021): heads of political parties must record donations above the prescribed threshold and the identity of the donors.
- Those records must be made available quarterly and kept for at least five years.
- The definitions and thresholds track the Political Party Funding Act 6 of 2018 — this is the PAIA hook for political-donation transparency.
If you run or fund a political party, PopiGuard turns s.52A's recording, quarterly-disclosure and five-year-retention duties into scheduled, evidenced tasks.