GOOD Party's Brett Herron and Lulama Benge make final Ward 38 push in Nyanga as polls open
The party's Cape Town mayoral candidate urged Ward 38 residents to vote alongside its ward candidate, in a get-out-the-vote post published as the by-election polls opened.
GOOD Party’s Cape Town mayoral candidate Brett Herron called on residents of Ward 38 in Nyanga to come out and vote on Wednesday, alongside the party’s ward candidate Lulama Benge, as polling got under way.
The call was published on the party’s official X account on the morning of the vote, tagged to the ward, the party’s candidates and the 2026 local government elections. In its own words, the party told residents that “your vote is your voice and your opportunity to shape the future of your community”, and urged them to “make your mark and take part in the democratic process”.
The post places Herron, who is contesting the Cape Town mayoralty for GOOD, directly behind the party’s ward-level campaign in Nyanga, a community in the city’s south-east. Pairing the two names is the party’s own framing of the contest: the ward vote and the metro-wide race presented to voters as one decision.
The message is a get-out-the-vote appeal rather than a statement of policy. It carries no pledge on housing, water, sanitation, crime or employment in Ward 38, and no claim about the record of any rival. What it does set out is the party’s position that participation itself is the point, and that the ward’s residents should use the ballot to shape what happens in their community.
That is the ground GOOD has chosen to fight on in the final hours of this contest. Whether it converts into turnout in Ward 38 will be known only when the count is published.
The Enquirer has not independently verified the party’s organisational claims or the status of the candidates named in the post beyond the party’s own statement.
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