Thabiso Goba3 September 2024 | 11:25

ActionSA to take IEC to court for failing to probe ANC's R102m Ezulweni debt settlement

In December last year, the ANC reached an out-of-court settlement with Ezulweni for monies it owed them relating to election posters. 

ActionSA to take IEC to court for failing to probe ANC's R102m Ezulweni debt settlement

ActionSA national chairperson, Michael Beaumont, at a media briefing on 22 July 2024. Picture: @Action4SA/X

JOHANNESBURG - ActionSA has decided to take the  Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) to court for failing to investigate the African National Congress (ANC)'s R102 debt settlement with Ezulweni Investments.

In December last year, the ANC reached an out-of-court settlement with Ezulweni for monies it owed them relating to election posters. 

ActionSA said the ANC has not disclosed where it received the money to settle the debt, as it is required under the Party Funding Act.

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At a media briefing, ActionSA's national chairperson, Michael Beaumont, said the ANC had a duty to be transparent as a governing party.  

"For the settlement of this debt, any donor paying the account directly with the service provider more than a R100,000 would have to have been declared as a donation in kind in terms of the letter of the Funding Act and yet no such declarations were made in the quarter during, before or afterwards," said Beaumont.