'My time is up', 'the future is theirs' - Rivonia trialist Andrew Mlangeni, 93, steals the show at voting station SAElections2019 | JennaEtheridge
Jeanne Marie Klopper and her daughter Courtney, 7, were star-struck when they saw Mlangeni at the voting station. "We were together in prison," a clearly touched Mlangeni told the little girl."Only myself and Denis Goldberg are still alive but we will pass away very soon."The only other surviving Rivonia trialist commented that the country had come a long way to have another peaceful election.
Klopper told News24 that she was teary-eyed after their encounter with Mlangeni, recalling the day she too stood in the voting queue with her mother in 1994. With the sparks of a social justice warrior in her heart, the little girl shared her dream of helping poor people:"I want to get them a big house to live in together and have money for toilets - for free."Bhawoodien told News24 afterwards that he had been the veteran's family doctor since 1992.
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