At a quiet voting station in Atteridgeville, a 75-year-old with osteoporosis, aided by his crutches slowly moves to the voting booth to make his mark.
Mark Shinners became involved with the PAC as a teenager after the Sharpeville Massacre in the 1960s. He was arrested and convicted alongside former deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke for anti-apartheid activities in 1963.After being released from prison, Shinners went right back into the fray, helping with the mobilisation of the 1976 student uprisings. Shinners and 17 other PAC members were convicted in what became known as the Bethal Treason Trial.
Speaking about the Struggle on Wednesday after casting his vote, Shinners spoke with passion about his organisation and his comrades, many of whom are no longer alive. At 75, he can still vividly recall dates and events."It's still Aluta Continua, but this time in terms of a dispensation in which political power is in the hands of a democratic majority.""The evidence is only coming out now, and the worst is still to come out.
Sitting outside the small voting station in his hometown, Shinners still believes with great optimism that there are solutions to the problems the country faces."We are not going to be blind to the sacrifices, the bones of our people lie around this country. We are not going to be indifferent to that. We owe the families of these people, we owe it to them."
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