Sequel to Long Walk to Freedom - Revision 4a - Chapter 3 Page 8

to sing songs composed by himself for the campaign. This young man, John Pretorius, later recorded the song " Sekunjalo", which he sang at so many rallies in the Cape during the election campaign. On voting day, an elderly African lady from the Northern Transvaal, as it was then known, told the election official at the polling station that she wanted to vote for the boy who came from jail. Although she mentioned some name, she did not know to which organisation he belonged. After interrogation, the polling station was able to sort out the problem to her satisfaction. As we have mentioned though, everything was not of that positive and joyous scale. In KwaZulu-Natal, we had to cope with the continuing political violence that cast a spell of gloom and doubt over the otherwise exciting prospects of democracy. We concentrated a lot of our time on the political