With the race to the 2019 elections drawing closer, SABC Digital News is talking a look back at some moments from 25 years ago, when South Africa approached its first democratic election.
I walked next to him as he moved around the room from table to table. He greeted each of the polling officers one by one. They seemed transfixed by his presence. He listened intently to each as they gave instructions for how to mark his ballot and deposit it into the ballot box. As we were about to emerge from the school house, he noticed a woman hiding behind the door as if she was not supposed to be there – as if she just had to sneak in to catch a glimpse of this historic moment.
The fact that I was there also had meaning in a larger sense. Here was an African American woman, born in the era of Jim Crow rule in the South of the US; matured through the years of the civil rights struggles in the US and our own version of transformation. I think that had meaning.
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