As he was crossing McGovern, a car slowed beside him.
But for Kganyo, like millions of others who put a cross beside the face of Nelson Mandela, those days of miracles and wonder are a fading memory.
Whether you favour remain or leave, this is a day in which a cross beside a single, simple question will determine the fate of a nation.
But when crunch time comes with the second round on 6 May, these protest voters will put a cross beside the name most likely to preserve l'exception française.
On Sunday, the Teacher will be tried at the civic center, beaten up, led down Station Road, and raised on a cross beside the seafront.
The fir tree standing stiff and straight, Lichen clad cross beside the gate, Gold crests twitter in the fir tree, The thrush repeats his reverie From the cross, in the fading light.
The latter is likely to be a chronic or habitual issue, while the former would be an occasional lapse, so a good old fashioned cross beside silly mistakes is as good as anything.
The treasurer appeared beside a placard listing Labor's five-pronged assault on our future prosperity, listing its "plans" for higher taxes on small business, investment, income, housing and electricity, with big red crosses beside each because toxic, bullet-like, sledgehammer-similar taxes are, you know, really bad.
Thanks to the mayoral voting system, in which voters can put a cross beside both a first and a second choice, this is an election in which opponents of Mr Johnson can safely choose between Mr Livingstone and one of these other candidates for their first choice.
They were typically were surrounded by a palisade or possessed a castle, and usually had a marketplace, with a widened high street or junction, often marked by a mercat cross (market cross), beside houses for the burgesses and other inhabitants.
