Cape Town - The organisation which tried to force political parties to reveal their sources of funding ahead of the local polls, has not yet indicated its next course of action.
This followed the refusal by parties in Parliament to disclose their funding despite the use of the Promotion of Access to Information Act ordering them to do so.
Janine Ogle, the national co-ordinator for My Vote Counts, the NGO pushing for the disclosure of financial support for parties, could not be reached for comment.
The pursuit of parties to disclose their funders was meant to indicate to the voters in the local election campaign where to take their votes to.
But all parties have refused to tell the organisation where their money comes from for the election campaign and business operations.
The organisation had said it believed that by coming clean, parties would be able to tell voters who their funders were.
This comes amid the disclosure by the ANC in the Western Cape last week that it had spent R1 billion on its election campaign.
Head of campaigns in the ANC Nomvula Mokonyane reportedly said the money had been used for a number of issues on elections, including busing in supporters, supporting their volunteers, paraphernalia and making T-shirts.
It was reported a few years ago that the ANC had used R500 million for its 2009 election campaign.
At the time, support for the party dropped from 65.9 percent to 62.2 percent.
In this election campaign, the ANC has pulled out all the stops to retain the key metros it controls following the 2014 decline in support in the metros.
The issue of funding has been a daunting question over the past two decades, with civil society and parties in the national legislature squabbling over the matter.
Opposition parties are afraid that if they revealed their funders, they could be exposed to all sorts of risks from the state.
The other threat was that this would close down the space for opposition parties in the country.
The now defunct Institute for Democracy in South Africa (Idasa) failed twice in the courts in 10 years to get parties to disclose their funders.
In the period between 2005 and 2015, Idasa had not been able to get the courts to accede to this demand.
Next week's local government election is one of the most contested in 20 years of democratic local government.
Political Bureau