Voices | The ANC in North West is up for a tight electoral competition for the first time since 1994
In 2016, a newly registered political party called Forum for Service Delivery contested local government elections, surprising everyone by getting 29 council seats in North West, one in Mpumalanga and one in the Free State.
The late Lucas Mangope’s United Christian Democratic Party died a natural death since the democratic regime and there is no hope of reviving pieces of what is left. While the media, parties, commentators and others are focusing on who is going to take political control of metropolitans after November 1, small parties such as the F4SD, with limited resources, are investing those resources where they will bear some fruit.
Among those struggling municipalities were Madibeng, JB Marks, Mamusa, Lekwa-Teemane, Ratlou, Tswaing, Ramotshere Moiloa and others.All these municipalities failed to meet service delivery demands; they could not even clean their towns and collect refuse and they sometimes failed to pay their human resources.
This, to a layman, simply means that investment will never reach this province because of incompetence shown by those who are supposed to provide services.It is for those reasons that people do not trust the ANC with their vote, and small parties such as the F4SD are waiting to benefit from such developments.
Freedom Front Plus will also get some of the votes from white communities – farm towns such as Zeerust, Swaartruggens, Potchefstroom, Lichtenburg and others – especially from the declining support of the DA in the province.
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