Invitation to a Briefing: SA Democracy Incorporated: Corporate Fronts and Political Party Funding

Date: 2006-11-10 to Invalid date

Invitation to a Briefing: SA Democracy Incorporated: Corporate Fronts and Political Party Funding
Pretoria, 10 November 2006

 

ISS Corruption & Governance Programme / Idasa Political Information and Monitoring Service

 

A new ISS Occasional Paper (see link below) identifies some of the possible sources of private funding to South Africa’s political parties. The briefing will present the research findings and discuss the potential impact they have on calls for a policy to regulate the private funding of political parties in South Africa.  This research was commissioned by the ISS Corruption & Governance project as part of a joint project with the Idasa Political Information & Monitoring Service (PIMS). The authors are journalists at the Mail & Guardian.

 

Speakers:

• Vicki Robinson, Commissioned Researcher and Political Journalist at the Mail & Guardian
• Judith February, Manager, Idasa (PIMS) - Respondent
• Hennie van Vuuren, Head: ISS Corruption and Governance Programme - Chair

 

Date: Friday, 10 November 2006

 

Venue:  ISS Conference Room, Block C, Brooklyn Court, 361 Veale Street, New Muckleneuk, Pretoria/Tshwane, (Parking in Brooklyn Mall and Absa Court)
 
Time:   11h30 to 13h00 (light lunch will be served)  
 
RSVP:  Ms Nobuntu Mtwa, Tel: (021) 461 7211, Fax: (021) 461 7213, email: [email protected] 

 

This research was made possible through funding received from the Open Society Foundation for South Africa