Editing Thabo Mbeki (section)

=== 1962–69: England ===
While at Sussex, Mbeki was involved in ANC work and in broader organising for the English [[Anti-Apartheid Movement]]. Months after his arrival, his father was arrested during a [[Security Branch (South Africa)|Security Branch]] raid at [[Liliesleaf Farm]] in July 1963. During the ensuing [[Rivonia Trial]], Mbeki appeared before the [[United Nations]] (UN) [[UN Special Committee on Apartheid|Special Committee on Apartheid]] and later led a student march from Brighton to London, a distance of fifty miles.<ref name="Gevisser-2007a" />'''{{Rp|pages=202–12}}''' At the conclusion of the trial, Govan and seven other ANC leaders, among them [[Nelson Mandela]] and [[Walter Sisulu]], were sentenced to [[life imprisonment]].

Mbeki completed his bachelor's degree in economics in May 1965 but, at the exhortation of [[Oliver Tambo|O. R. Tambo]], enrolled for a Master's in economics and [[Economic development|development]] instead of returning to Africa to join [[UMkhonto we Sizwe|Umkhonto we Sizwe]] (MK), the ANC's armed wing. His Master's dissertation was in [[economic geography]].<ref name="Gevisser-2007a" />'''{{Rp|pages=198, 223}}''' In addition to this and his political organising, he developed a deep fondness for [[W. B. Yeats|Yeats]], [[Bertolt Brecht|Brecht]], [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]], and [[Blues|blues music]].<ref name="Gevisser-2007a" />'''{{Rp|pages=|page=195}}'''After completing his Master's, in October 1966 he moved to London to work full-time for the [[propaganda]] section of the ANC's English headquarters.<ref name="Gevisser-2007a" />'''{{Rp|pages=|page=251}}'''He remained active in the SACP, which was very closely allied to the ANC, and in 1967 he was appointed to the editorial board of its official magazine, the ''[[African Communist]]''.<ref name="Gevisser-2007a" />'''{{Rp|pages=|page=221}}'''

Throughout his time in England, Mbeki was the ward of O. R. Tambo and his wife [[Adelaide Tambo]] – in the absence of his parents, it was Adelaide and senior communist [[Michael Harmel]] who attended Mbeki's graduation ceremony in 1965.<ref name="Gevisser-2007a" />'''{{Rp|pages=|page=218}}''' O. R. Tambo later became the ANC's longest-serving president, and he acted as Mbeki's "political mentor and patron" until his death in 1993. Other friends Mbeki made in England, including [[Ronnie Kasrils]] and brothers [[Essop Pahad]] and [[Aziz Pahad]], were also among his key political allies in his later career.<ref name="Gevisser-2007a" />'''{{Rp|pages=166, 181, 221–22}}'''