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In 1951 Thabo moved to his uncle, Michael Moerane, in Queenstown when he was eight; Michael, Epainette's eldest brother was music master at the black high school; Thabo attended the Moravian mission school; he played the flute in the family musical group called The African Springtime Orchestra; Queenstown: a centre for gqoboka life in the Eastern Cape, the Moeranes lived on the outskirts of the old white town, next to the (jazzy) Matshikiza family, in Queenstown that Thabo learned his love for classical and jazz music; Michael Moerane a New African, belonged to the ANC's rival NEUM (Non European Unity Movement (took severe anti-collaborationist stance); Govan and Michael did not get along; 1952 year of white tercentenary celebrations (celebrating Jan van Riebeeck's arrival at the Cape), the year Mandela launched the Defiance Campaign, the new Congress movement: a non-racial alliance against apartheid, a direct challenge to ANCYL's exclusivism and anti-communism, communists worked in Congress organisations; at the end of 1952 Thabo is taken to Butterworth to live with the Ngampu family, unhappy about the move away from family life in Queenstown; ANS planning a massive boycott against Bantu Education for 1955, talk of a violent revolution.
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