MOGOENG CJ the benevolent exercise of a ministerial discretion. This is so because it ultimately helps to determine whether those elected will handle the bread and butter issues of the people well. It must, so to speak, be free-flowing. [71] There are some good and strong pointers in PAIA itself to what could possibly be done to properly record and make information on the private funding of political parties or independent candidates easily or reasonably accessible.54 It cannot be emphasised enough that it would be erroneous to construe section 32 as conferring an absolute or blanket entitlement to seekers of any information required from whomsoever for the exercise or protection of all rights. The ease with which it is made accessible ought to depend on the nature of the right whose exercise or protection is sought to be facilitated. If that right self-evidently requires particular information to be properly exercisable, then a person or entity in need of it does not always have to explain the need. The right to vote is one such example. It is intrinsic to its proper enjoyment and its essentiality that all information, that could reveal the potential disadvantage that private funding could bring about, be recorded and easily or reasonably accessible. [72] It is enough to lay down a principle that requires the State to ensure that the information be recorded, preserved and disclosable in a reasonably accessible manner and that it is not to be paid for. Millions of voting South Africans are unemployed. And even those who are employed need every Rand they earn to meet their basic necessities. Those who stand to benefit from these people’s vote or participation in the elections ought to be agreeable to a regulatory framework that facilitates the recordal, preservation and reasonable access to information that could shed more light on who they really are and whose favours they might have to return. That information is indeed essential for voting and imparting information. 54 See sections 52 and 70 of PAIA. 28