March and March leader Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma has denied claims that the movement is funded by political parties or businesses, amid growing calls for scrutiny of its financial backing.
“Happy to share our bank statements. We are not funded by any political party or business. There was only one media briefing for which we received some assistance for banners and other costs, where a business helped us, but that was it. We sell our branded T-shirts and other products on our social media platforms and do our own crowdfunding via our website,” she told IOL.
Asked to identify the business that funded the media briefing, Ngobese-Zuma said the company did not want publicity around its once-off sponsorship.
“They did not want to be identified. They assisted once, and we have not received any more funding from them,” she said.
Her response comes amid growing speculation and questions about the movement’s funding model and how it sustains its national operations.
Claims that the movement may be funded by ActionSA — one of its key supporters — have also been dismissed by party leader Herman Mashaba.
“ActionSA is on record as supporting March and March in its efforts to ask the GNU to deal effectively with the threat of illegal, undocumented foreign nationals. But we do not fund them — we need funding ourselves,” Mashaba said.
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