“For better and not for worse, for richer and not for poorer… as long as the money lasts,” said Business.
|||Cape Town - Business and the government make for an unholy alliance or matrimony, activists from the My Vote Counts campaign suggested with a mock “Gupta wedding” protest outside the World Economic Forum at the Cape Town International Convention Centre on Thursday.
A mock sermon and wedding ceremony, piggybacking on the Gupta wedding, saw a marriage of The Government and Big Business.
“For better and not for worse, for richer and not for poorer… as long as the money lasts,” said the “groom”, playing the role of Business.
Zukiswa Vuka, the My Vote Counts co-ordinator, explained that the group lobbied for more transparency in the funding of political parties.
She suggested the large amounts of cash that political parties sourced from private commercial donors meant their allegiances to the people of South Africa might be compromised by their indebtedness to donors.
“In South Africa, parties spend (large) sums of unnecessary money with no rules to regulate expenditure. The total cost? Unknown.”
Cape Argus