28. Are there provisions for direct public funding to political parties?

Article 78: An allowance as public aid for the financing of the election campaign shall be allocated to each candidate or candidate list, half of whom shall be paid before the beginning of the campaign. The second half of the allowance shall be paid within one week of the announcement of the final election results, provided that the first installment of the campaign expenses is shown, as well as the filing of accounts with the Court of Auditors. Any candidate who has received less than three percent (3%) of the votes cast at the national level or any list that has received less than three percent (3%) of the votes cast at the constituency level and who have not obtained a seat to the Assembly of representatives of the people, must return the entirety of the public compensation. Any list or candidate must also return sums that prove not to be in the nature of election expenses. The State recovers any unused sum of public compensation. Any candidate or list that does not comply with the provisions of paragraph 3 of this article can not benefit from the compensation as public funding in the following elections. Candidates from the same list are considered to be in solidarity with the obligations relating to the public indemnity. 

Source:ORGANIC LAW RELATING TO ELECTIONS AND REFERENDUMS AS ADOPTED BY THE ANC ON 1 MAY 2014