The public must demand that urgent action is taken on this issue
ID Chief Whip Lance Greyling is disappointed that the major political parties in Parliament have once again chosen to forego an opportunity to regulate the private funding of political parties.
This disapointment comes after the Chief Whips forum, once again used delaying tactics to prevent the ID's motion for the establishment of an ad hoc committee to regulate private funding of political parties, from being implemented.
"The ID has experienced these kinds of delaying tactics many times in the past during our campaign to ensure that the private funding of political parties is subjected to stringent regulations," stated Greyling.
"An ID motion to debate the establishment of an ad hoc committee to formulate this legislation was in fact submitted three years ago and various means were employed to stop it from being considered.
The ID then took this proposal to the Joint Rules Committee where they once again referred it back to the Chief Whips Forum. The ID was therefore hoping that a final resolution could be taken at today's Chief Whips Forum that would once and for all establish this much needed committee.
Instead what we witnessed was the complete lack of political will amongst the major political parties to agree to the establishment of any such mechanism to deal with this issue. We have once again seen this issue being postponed indefinitely while political parties supposedly take this back to their caucuses for discussion.