ANC sends Mokonyane door to door in Kagiso as special votes get under way

The African National Congress put its first deputy secretary-general on the ground in Kagiso on Tuesday, sending Nomvula Mokonyane into Ward 10 to work alongside branch volunteers during the special votes period.

The party described the visit, in its own post on its official X account, as part of the Siyobalanda Special Voters Campaign. Its stated purpose was practical: ensuring that special voters are assisted in reaching their voting stations and can exercise their democratic right.

“Bringing voters closer to the ballot box and closer to a better life for all,” the party wrote, tagging the post with #VoteANC2026 and #LetsBuildBetterCommunitiesTogether.

The post carried four photographs from the campaign. It gave no figures for how many voters were assisted, how many volunteers took part, or how many people in the ward had applied to cast a special vote. The Enquirer has no independent count of the turnout or of the assistance given.

The ANC’s position, as it states it, is that special voting is a service to be organised for voters who cannot easily reach a station, and that party structures should be part of delivering it. The post frames the work as assistance rather than persuasion, though a party campaign in the days before a vote is also an opportunity to be seen in a ward it is contesting.

The party’s record on special votes is a record of administration as much as politics. Special voting exists for registered voters who cannot travel to their voting station on election day, including the elderly, the infirm and those with mobility difficulties, and it is run by the Electoral Commission of South Africa rather than by parties. Parties are entitled to help voters understand the process and to encourage turnout, and the ANC’s campaign in Kagiso is presented as exactly that kind of help.

What the post does not do is address the questions that have followed special votes in past cycles, including whether everyone who qualifies knows to apply and whether transport and assistance reach the wards that need them most. Those questions are put to the Electoral Commission, not to a party, and the ANC’s post makes no claim about them.

Kagiso, west of Johannesburg on the West Rand, is a ward where the party’s ground operation matters. The ANC’s own framing of the day is that the work is about the ballot box and about what it says comes after it, a better life for all, and that is the claim it is asking voters to weigh.