Editing Thabo Mbeki (section)

=== 1960–62: Johannesburg ===
In June 1960, Mbeki moved to [[Johannesburg]], where he lived in the home of ANC secretary general [[Duma Nokwe]] and where he intended to sit for [[A-Level|A-level]] examinations. The ANC had recently been banned in the aftermath of the [[Sharpeville massacre]], but Mbeki remained highly politically active, becoming national secretary of the African Students' Association, a new (and short-lived) youth movement envisaged as replacing the now illegal ANC Youth League. It was also during this period that Nokwe recruited Mbeki into the SACP.<ref name="Gevisser-2007a" />'''{{Rp|pages=129–48}}'''

Thus the ANC instructed him to join the growing cohort of cadres who were leaving South Africa to evade police attention, receive training, and establish the overt ANC structures that were now illegal inside the country. Mbeki was detained twice by the police while attempting to leave the country, first in [[Rustenburg|Rustenberg]], when the group he was travelling with failed to pass themselves off as a touring football team, and then in [[Southern Rhodesia|Rhodesia]].<ref name="Gevisser-2007a" />'''{{Rp|pages=169–70}}''' He arrived at the ANC's new headquarters in [[Dar es Salaam]], Tanzania, in November 1962, and left shortly afterwards for England.<ref name="Gevisser-2007a" />'''{{Rp|pages=174–75}}'''