Money · Political Party Funding Act 6 of 2018 · in force 1 April 2021
Every donation
over R200 000.
Since April 2021 parties must tell the Electoral Commission (IEC) every quarter who gave them more than the disclosure threshold, and the IEC publishes the list. Parties with seats in the National Assembly or a provincial legislature also share public money, mostly by seats. From 2021/22 Q1 to 2026/27 Q1 parties declared R1,14 billion in donations.
The rules
Threshold, cap
and formula.
| In force | Disclose above | Cap per donor a year | Foreign (training, policy) | Public funds by seats / equally | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 April 2021 – 7 May 2024 | R100 000 | R15 million | R5 million | 67% / 33% | Act 6 of 2018, Schedule 2 regs 2, 7, 8, 9 (transitional regulations) verified in the gazette |
| 8 May 2024 – 17 August 2025 | R100 000 | R15 million | R5 million | 90% / 10% | EMAA 14 of 2024 s. 29 (90/10; regs 7 and 9 left to a presidential determination); the R100 000 / R15 million figures continued under the Western Cape High Court read-in (My Vote Counts v President, 10607/24) until the President's determination partly secondary |
| 18 August 2025 – today | R200 000 | R30 million | R5 million | 90% / 10% | Proclamation R. 275 of 2025, GG 53182 (signed 6 Aug, published 18 Aug 2025), on the National Assembly resolution of 20 May 2025; 90/10 from EMAA 2024 partly secondary |
What we checked
The 2018 Act and its commencement (1 April 2021), and the Electoral Matters Amendment Act 14 of 2024, which moved the public-fund formula from two thirds by seats and one third equally to 90% and 10%, renamed the Represented Political Party Fund the Political Representatives Fund, and left the threshold and cap to a presidential determination after a National Assembly resolution.
What is secondary
The determination itself, Proclamation R.275 of 2025 (Government Gazette 53182, 18 August 2025), setting R200 000 and R30 million: we could not retrieve the gazette. The figures come from Parliament's committee report, the press and the IEC's own statement for 2026/27 Q1, which applies them. The IEC's FAQ page still shows R100 000 and R15 million.
Who may not give
- foreign governments or foreign government agencies
- foreign persons or entities (except for training/skills development or policy development, capped)
- organs of state
- state-owned enterprises
- proceeds of crime (known or reasonably suspected; must be reported) (s. 8(3))
Section 8. Donors must also declare their own donations within 30 days (s.9(2)).
Declared donations · 21 quarterly reports
Quarter by quarter,
party by party.
Each column is one quarterly report, including late declarations published with it. The two tallest are the quarters before the 29 May 2024 elections (R172,07 million and R189,85 million). The report for July to September 2026, the run-up to the local elections, is due about the end of November 2026.
| Party | 2021/22 | 2022/23 | 2023/24 | 2024/25 | 2025/26 | 2026/27 (Q1) | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DADemocratic Alliance | R47,9 million | R54,47 million | R126,97 million | R68,18 million | R122,16 million | R104,03 million | R523,72 million |
| ANCAfrican National Congress | R66,14 million | R51,5 million | R47,56 million | R53,23 million | R10,02 million | R228,45 million | |
| ActionSAActionsa | R25,3 million | R26,46 million | R40,06 million | R14,19 million | R12,37 million | R5,5 million | R123,88 million |
| RiseRise Mzansi | R31,84 million | R33,9 million | R30 million | R2,25 million | R97,99 million | ||
| IFPInkatha Freedom Party | R787 588 | R20,3 million | R38,55 million | R514 886 | R60,16 million | ||
| CSNChange Starts Now | R35,82 million | R150 000 | R35,97 million | ||||
| BOSABuild One South Africa | R16,8 million | R13,04 million | R217 276 | R30,06 million | |||
| PAPatriotic Alliance | R430 000 | R557 000 | R8,35 million | R6,65 million | R15,99 million | ||
| EFFEconomic Freedom Fighters | R3,15 million | R352 600 | R2,64 million | R515 313 | R6,66 million | ||
| LPSALabour Party of South Africa | R5 million | R5 million | |||||
| All parties | R145,45 million | R133,34 million | R335,58 million | R230,96 million | R175,72 million | R116,78 million | R1,14 billion |
Donors · names as the IEC prints them
Who
gives.
The IEC publishes the donor's name, the amount and the date, and no addresses. Names are kept as printed, so one donor can appear under several spellings ("Martin Moshal", "Martin Paul Moshal"); we have not merged them. One registered company name is itself a street address; it is withheld here and its amount still counted.
The last four reports 1 July 2025 – 30 June 2026 · R252,09 million
- FYNBOS EKWITEIT (PTY) LTD R50 million DA
- FYNBOS KAPITAAL PROPRIETARY LIMITED R38 million DA
- WE ARE THE PEOPLE R30 million Rise
- MR D BARNES R13 million DA
- BALL FAMILY TRUST R10 million DA
- MAIN STREET 1564 PTY LTD R10 million DA
- MARTIN MOSHAL R10 million ActionSA
- MS M SLACK R10 million DA
- VOICES OF SOUTH AFRICA FOUNDATION NPC R5,68 million DA
- ASSOCIATION OF MINEWORKERS & CONSTRUCTION UNION (AMCU) R5 million LPSA
- LOMBARD CONSOLIDATED PTY LTD R5 million DA
- MR M MOSHAL R5 million DA
Since April 2021 all 21 reports
- FYNBOS EKWITEIT (PTY) LTD R125,1 million DACSN
- FYNBOS KAPITAAL PROPRIETARY LIMITED R98 million DA
- MARTIN MOSHAL R72,5 million ActionSADA
- WE ARE THE PEOPLE R60,5 million RiseUDM
- CHANCELLOR HOUSE TRUST R58,16 million ANC
- BATHO BATHO TRUST R45 million ANC
- UNITED MANGANESE OF KALAHARI R35 million ANC
- REBECCA OPPENHEIMER R33,33 million RiseActionSA
- MAIN STREET 1564 R32,6 million DACSNISANCORise
- VICTORIA FREUDENHEIM R31,08 million ActionSA
- MARTIN PAUL MOSHAL R27,5 million BOSAIFPActionSA
- JONATHAN ERNEST MAXIMILLIAN OPPENHEIMER R25 million IFP
- MR J OPPENHEIMER R25 million DA
- BOTHO BOTHO COMMERCIAL ENTERPRISE PTY LTD R20 million ANC
- MS M SLACK R20 million DA
Declared but not counted
In its statement for 2026/27 Q1 the IEC left these ANC declarations out of the compliant totals (missing donor declarations or proof of payment, or filed late) and issued a direction under s.15. The IEC says this is not a finding that the donations were unlawful.
- Captrust Investment (Pty) Ltd R270 000 · 2026/27 Q1, non-compliant
- Batho Batho Trust R15 million · 2026/27 Q1, non-compliant
- Friedrich Ebert Stiftung R501 230 in kind · late 2025/26 declaration
- Botho Botho Commercial Enterprises (Pty) Ltd R10 million · late 2025/26 declaration
- Valumax Projects R500 000 · late 2025/26 declaration
- Batho Batho Trust R15 million in kind · late 2025/26 declaration
- Batho Batho Trust R15 million · late 2025/26 declaration
IEC: Political party donations for the first quarter of 2026/27 (statement, Aug 2026) ↗
Public money
The Political
Representatives Fund.
Parliament votes money each year for parties represented in the National Assembly and the provincial legislatures; the IEC announces the total and pays it in four quarterly instalments. For 2025/26 it is R336 352 038. No total for 2026/27 had been gazetted when we checked on 5 November 2026.
Annual totals
| 2021/22 | R162 921 437 |
|---|---|
| 2022/23 | R342 292 504 |
| 2023/24 | R350 946 857 |
| 2023/24 (extra) | R200 000 000 |
| 2024/25 | R324 583 603 |
| 2025/26 | R336 352 038 |
IEC gazette notices as reproduced by acts.co.za (secondary).
Paid to each party, 2024/25
IEC Political Funding Report 2025, Table 2: R566 878 967 in all, made of four regular instalments, R42,3 million held back during the 2024 election period and paid afterwards, and an extra R200 million. COPE, the AIC and the Minority Front lost their seats in May 2024 and were paid for the first quarter only (plus held-back funds).
The Multi-Party Democracy Fund
A second fund for private money given to democracy rather than to a party, shared by the same formula. 16 contributions since 2021 total R51,26 million; in 2024/25 it received R28 million and paid out R30,89 million. The IEC does not publish its payments by party.
- EXXARO RESOURCES R25 million
- STANDARD BANK OF SOUTH AFRICA LIMITED R10 million
- VODACOM PTY LTD R8 million
- VODACOM (SA) R5 million
- STANDARD BANK OF SOUTH AFRICA R2,5 million
- DISCOVERY CENTRAL SERVICES R500 000
Calculator · Schedule 2, regulations 2–5
Share out
the fund.
90% of the fund is divided by each party's seats in the National Assembly and the nine provincial legislatures together (887 seats). The other 10% is first split among the ten legislatures by their size, then equally among the parties in each, which favours small parties with seats in several legislatures. With the R324,58 million of 2024/25 and the 2024 seats this reproduces every party's quarterly instalment in the IEC's report to within R2.
R336,35 million · 2025/26 total
| Party | Seats | Legislatures | By seats | Equal share | A year | A quarter | Under the other formula |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ANC | 383 | 10 | R130,71 million | R3,53 million | R134,24 million | R33,56 million | R108,58 million |
| DA | 184 | 10 | R62,8 million | R3,53 million | R66,32 million | R16,58 million | R58,27 million |
| MK | 116 | 8 | R39,59 million | R3,12 million | R42,71 million | R10,68 million | R39,73 million |
| EFF | 93 | 10 | R31,74 million | R3,53 million | R35,27 million | R8,82 million | R35,27 million |
| IFP | 33 | 3 | R11,26 million | R1,62 million | R12,89 million | R3,22 million | R13,76 million |
| PA | 19 | 5 | R6,48 million | R1,86 million | R8,35 million | R2,09 million | R11,02 million |
| VF+ | 15 | 9 | R5,12 million | R3,02 million | R8,14 million | R2,04 million | R13,86 million |
| ActionSA | 11 | 4 | R3,75 million | R1,68 million | R5,44 million | R1,36 million | R8,38 million |
| UDM | 6 | 2 | R2,05 million | R1,18 million | R3,23 million | R807 911 | R5,46 million |
| ACDP | 5 | 3 | R1,71 million | R1,3 million | R3 million | R750 456 | R5,58 million |
| ATM | 3 | 2 | R1,02 million | R1,18 million | R2,21 million | R551 949 | R4,7 million |
| BOSA | 3 | 2 | R1,02 million | R1,12 million | R2,14 million | R535 575 | R4,49 million |
| Rise | 3 | 2 | R1,02 million | R1,12 million | R2,14 million | R535 575 | R4,49 million |
| Al Jama-ah | 3 | 2 | R1,02 million | R1,02 million | R2,04 million | R510 869 | R4,16 million |
| NCC | 3 | 2 | R1,02 million | R1,02 million | R2,04 million | R510 869 | R4,16 million |
| UAT | 2 | 2 | R682 563 | R1,25 million | R1,93 million | R482 429 | R4,66 million |
| GOOD | 2 | 2 | R682 563 | R1,02 million | R1,7 million | R425 549 | R3,9 million |
| PAC | 1 | 1 | R341 282 | R842 671 | R1,18 million | R295 988 | R3,06 million |
| NFP | 1 | 1 | R341 282 | R505 602 | R846 884 | R211 721 | R1,94 million |
| ACT | 1 | 1 | R341 282 | R189 601 | R530 883 | R132 721 | R884 804 |
Seats as elected on 29 May 2024 (IEC). Independent representatives would share in the same way since 2024; none was elected. Money held back during an election period is paid to the parties represented after it (reg 5(2)), which the calculator leaves out.