caa a22 4500 388102950 CHVBK 20180307125328.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1999 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0021855300008780 doi S0021855300008780 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0021855300008780 Constitutionality of Funding Arrangements for Political Parties [Elektronische Daten] United Parties v. Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs [1998] 1 LRC 614 (Supreme Court of Zimbabwe) In 1992 the Political Parties (Finance) Act was passed which made provision for the state funding of political parties. Section 3(3) provided that all political parties would be entitled to state funding in proportion to the number of their members elected to parliament, so long as they had a minimum of 15 elected members. At that time ZANU(PF) candidates were elected to 117 of the 120 parliamentary seats and in the 1995 general election this increased to 118 out of 120 seats. The effect of section 3(3) was that only ZANU(PF) qualified for state funding. The applicant was a recognized political party formed in 1994. It had no members of parliament and thus did not qualify for any state funding. It sought a declaration that section 3 infringed the constitutional right to freedom of expression and was therefore invalid. Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1999 Journal of African Law Cambridge University Press 43/1(1999), 113-113 0021-8553 43:1<113 1999 43 JAL https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021855300008780 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 brief-communication jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021855300008780 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of African Law Cambridge University Press 43/1(1999), 113-113 0021-8553 43:1<113 1999 43 JAL CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge