{"id":93838,"date":"2025-12-06T15:26:45","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T15:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/anc-faces-financial-strain-from-discreet-donors"},"modified":"2025-12-06T15:49:56","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T15:49:56","slug":"anc-faces-financial-strain-from-discreet-donors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/anc-faces-financial-strain-from-discreet-donors","title":{"rendered":"ANC Faces Financial Strain from Discreet Donors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>Deputy President Paul Mashatile says the African National Congress (ANC) has suffered a financial blow since political parties have been required to declare their private donors.<\/p>\n<p>This amid reports that the party is once again struggling to pay its staff at its Luthuli House headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the Parliamentary Press Gallery Association on Thursday, Mashatile said the party has appealed to the finance minister to increase state funding to political parties.<\/p>\n<p>In August, the threshold for declaring donations to political parties was increased from R100,000 to R200,000.<\/p>\n<p>In the last quarterly funding report released by the Electoral Commission last week, the ANC didn&#8217;t declare any cash donations between July and September.<\/p>\n<p>Mashatile said funding has dried up since disclosures became mandatory in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve lost a lot of funders as the anc who don\u2019t want to be disclosed for various reasons. 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Deputy President Paul Mashatile says the African National Congress (ANC) has suffered a financial blow since political parties have been required to declare their private donors. This amid reports that the party is once again struggling to pay its staff at its Luthuli House headquarters. 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