In her new book, Turning and Turning: Exploring the complexities of South Africa's democracy, political analyst Judith February reminds us that the Institute for Democracy in South Africa warned us back in 1997 of the threat to democracy posed by secrecy in party funding. No one knew then that in time it would bring us very close to the brink. This is an extract from the book.
Six weeks before the 2014 national elections, over 60 civil society organisations made an open call to the fourteen biggest political parties, asking them to disclose their sources of private funding. Not one of them did.
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