Forum for Service Delivery explained

Forum 4 Service Delivery
Colorcode:Green
Founder:Mbahare Johannes Kekana
Leader1 Title:President Mbahare Kekana
Founded:2015
Headquarters:Steven House Brooklyn
Colours:White, Green and Black
Seats1 Title:National Assembly seats
Seats2 Title:Provincial Legislatures
Country:South Africa

The Forum 4 Service Delivery (F4SD) is South African political party founded in 2015 to tackle grassroots issues such as water, sanitation, housing, immigration laws, education and children going to school without shoes. The party registered to contest the 2016 South African municipal elections in five provinces: North West, Mpumalanga, Northern Cape, Gauteng and Limpopo.[1]

The party contested the 2016 Local Government elections, winning 31 seats, 29 in the North West Province, and one each in Mpumalanga and the Free State. The party also contested also 2019 general election but failed to win a seat. The party's primary demand in their 2019 manifesto was direct speedy services to the people and the removal of all foreign nationals.[2] [3]

Election results

National Assembly elections

|-! Election! Party leader! Total votes! Share of vote! Seats ! +/–! Government|-! 2019| rowspan=2 |Mbahare Johannes Kekana| 8,525| 0.05%| | New| |-! 2024| 11,077| 0.07%| | 0| |}

Provincial elections

! rowspan=2 | Election[4] [5] ! colspan=2 | Eastern Cape! colspan=2 | Free State! colspan=2 | Gauteng! colspan=2 | Kwazulu-Natal! colspan=2 | Limpopo! colspan=2 | Mpumalanga! colspan=2 | North-West! colspan=2 | Northern Cape! colspan=2 | Western Cape|-! % !! Seats! % !! Seats! % !! Seats! % !! Seats! % !! Seats! % !! Seats! % !! Seats! % !! Seats! % !! Seats|-! 2019| 0.05 || 0/63| || | || | || | || | 0.08 || 0/30| 0.33 || 0/33| || | 0.02 || 0/42|-! 2024| || | || | 0.03 || 0/80| || | 0.10 || 0/64| || | 0.58 || 0/38| || | || |}

Municipal elections

|-!Election!Votes!%!Change|-!2016[6] |align="right"|86,667|align="right"|0.23%|align="right"|-|-! 2021[7] | 81,960| 0.27%| 0.04|-|}

In the 2021 election, the party increased its representation from one to two seats in the Ditsobotla Local Municipality. In the 2022 election, held after the entire council was dissolved, it retained its seats.[8]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Independent forum 'not founded by disgruntled ANC supporters' . Stone . Setumo . 2016-06-06 . CityPress . en . 2019-04-05.
  2. Web site: Forum 4 Service Delivery . www.forum4sd.org.za . en-gb . 2019-04-05.
  3. Web site: 2019 Elections: Crib-sheet for the political parties contesting the 2019 polls, Part Two . Davis . Rebecca . Daily Maverick . 25 March 2019 . en . 2019-04-05.
  4. Web site: Results Dashboard. www.elections.org.za . 2019-05-11.
  5. Web site: NPE Results Dashboard 2024 . 2024-06-14 . results.elections.org.za.
  6. Web site: Results Summary - All Ballots p. elections.org.za. 5 April 2019.
  7. Web site: Local Government Elections 2021 Results Summary - All Ballots . elections.org.za . 16 December 2022.
  8. Web site: Sussman . Wayne . 2022-12-15 . DECEMBER BY-ELECTIONS: North West misery – ANC hammered in Ditsobotla as EFF delivers blows in townships, villages, farm areas . 2022-12-16 . Daily Maverick . en.