they live in gla** houses...

[BHLAKHROZE]

...yet they throw stones.

'WE TOOK KEBBLES CASH - DA'

saw this headline. while walking the streets looking lost (my favourite vocation in this life). promptly removed it from the lampost.

its for keeps.

chuckle. chuckle. into the sunset.

[RearrangedReality]

Posted to the web on: 21 August 2006
DA says it accepted cash from Kebble 'in good faith'  
 
Ernest Mabuza

THE Democratic Alliance (DA), which has been vocal in calling the African National Congress (ANC) to come clean on the allegations that it received millions from slain mining magnate Brett Kebble, yesterday admitted that it had also received some cash from Kebble.

DA MP James Selfe said the party received R125000 in January 2001, a further R125000 in December 2001 and R250000 in February 2004.

The DA's admission comes just a few weeks after the party said that if the ANC had received money, which should have gone to Kebble's creditors, the ANC must pay it back.

No laws exist to govern private donations to political parties.

The party said at the time the donations were made that there was no reason to believe that the donations were in any way "problematic".

Kebble was shot dead while driving his car in Johannesburg in September last year. In June, the Cape High Court ordered the final sequestration of the late businessman's estate. Creditors argued the estate was insolvent, with liabilities exceeding a**ets by at least R446m.

The DA made its admission after the Sunday Times reported yesterday that Kebble donated more than R2m to the party. Kebble's a**ociates claimed the donations to the DA were revealed during a secret sequestration hearing into Kebble's insolvent estate.

The hearing was held two weeks ago in the Wynberg Magistrate's Court in Cape Town.

A number of top-ranking ANC members were subpoenaed and asked to justify having received money from Kebble

Forensic auditors uncovered records of R25m listed as having been paid to the ANC by Kebble and companies linked to him. The ANC denied that it received the money and denied being questioned about the funds.

Selfe denied that the DA had been asked to meet with the sequestrators of Kebble's estate and said the opposition party was disclosing the donations for the sake of transparency.

"The money was received in good faith. Up until now, no call has been made to the party about the donations," Selfe said.

ANC Youth League spokesman Zizi Kodwa said the DA's call for the ANC to come clean was opportunistic.

"The turn of events shows that the DA wanted to gain political points as it has now been revealed that it also got donations from Kebble.

"We have always maintained that the issue of party funding should always be between the party and the donor," Kodwa said.

He said the admission showed that the DA was not a credible opposition to raise the issue of donations.

The two biggest political parties have always shown solidarity in refusing to disclose the sources of their funding.

The Institute for Democracy in SA (Idasa) embarked on litigation to force political parties to provide Idasa with information regarding their sources of private funding.

Idasa wanted the Cape High Court to force the ANC and the DA to disclose donations that were sufficiently substantial to influence a political party, its office bearers and its members.

The parties argued that the regulation of private funding of political parties would best be achieved through law after thorough public debate, rather than through litigation in the courts.

The Cape High Court dismissed Idasa's application last year and ruled that political parties should not, as a matter of principle, be compelled to disclose details of donations.

[afterbirth]

support idasa in their campaign to get political parties to declare their benefactors... (makes sure that government & political parties aren't @ the whim of business)!

[solarman]

azanian souljahs,

Its a joke the way goverment orders( international as well) are making denmocratic rules that they can easily manipulate and break at will. Brett Kebble and his family were doing more than just finincially backing up political parties for various reasons, the whole BEE project and its unkown components, are the hard endeavours of yours truly!... Oh and some ill mannered native clowns!

Aluta Continua :idea:  :?: