GOOD Party's Brett Herron and Lulama Benge make their Nyanga ward push as Ward 38 votes

The GOOD Party spent election day in Ward 38, Nyanga, urging residents to vote and putting its mayoral candidate Brett Herron and its ward candidate Lulama Benge in front of them.

In a post on its official X account, the party told Ward 38 that it was time to make their voice heard and called on residents to come out and take part in today’s elections. It said the vote was “your voice and your opportunity to shape the future of your community.”

The appeal was signed off with the party’s campaign tags for the ward and the 2026 local government election, and a closing line that there was still time to get out and vote.

The post is a get-out-the-vote message rather than a statement of policy. It sets out no position on services, housing, immigration, crime or the city’s budget, and it makes no claim about the ward’s record or its opponents. What it does establish is where the party chose to spend its own voice on polling day, and who it put forward to carry it: Herron at mayoral level and Benge in the ward.

Ward 38 in Nyanga is one of the Cape Town wards where turnout on the day decides more than any national swing does, and a party with a ward candidate on the ballot has a direct interest in getting every sympathetic voter to a station before closing time. GOOD’s message is pitched at exactly that: not an argument for why residents should choose it, but a reminder that the choice is being made today.

Nothing in the post reports a result, a projected outcome or a claim about how the vote is going. The party’s own account of the day is that it was still open when the message went out.