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people. These yielded enormous responses. We engaged with the people face to face. We also engaged the masses in an active voter education campaign. The President organised some influential and personalities to help in this regard. One of them was Leepile Taunyank then President of the National Professional Teacher's Organisation of South Africa. He replied that the President was late, he and his colleagues in NAPTOSA had already started the voter education campaign. We were tremendously inspired because he led a strong and disciplined movement, which had enough resources to wage a powerful campaign. We had made the same appeal to the South African Democratic Teachers' Union (SADTU)who had already taken the initiative also before we appealed to them to join. They worked closely with COSATU and their involvement gave the campaign a lot of impact. The ANC sought not to speak to the people, but to speak with the people.