ANC's last-hour election push: "Each one, bring one" as polls close at 9pm

The African National Congress spent the final hours of voting day asking its supporters to bring other people with them. In a post on its official X account on Wednesday, the party urged voters to gather family, friends and neighbours and head to the stations together before they closed at 9pm.

“Each one, bring one! Grab your crew, your family or your neighbours and make it a group thing!” the post read. “There’s still time! Voting stations close tonight at 9pm! VOTE ANC and let’s continue building better communities, together.”

The message carried the tags #VoteAnc2026 and #Letsbuildbettercommunities, and was posted with a photograph. The party’s pitch to voters in the closing hours was framed around community building, with no new policy commitment offered in the post itself.

What the post does not contain is any claim about how voting has gone, how many people have turned out, or how the party expects to fare. It is a get-out-the-vote appeal, addressed to people already inclined to support the ANC, and it asks them to act as recruiters within their own circles.

The approach is a familiar one in the last hours of an election, when parties shift from persuasion to mobilisation and the marginal value of a single committed voter who brings two more can matter. The ANC is asking its base to do that work directly, rather than leaving it to party structures.

The post gives no figures, no station details and no information on the party’s own assessment of the day. The Enquirer has no independent turnout data in the material supplied and does not report any here.

Voting stations close at 9pm.