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In 1955 Mbeki goes to Lovedale, the first South African high school to admit black students for over a century, founded by Scottish Presbyterian Church; Dr RHW Shepherd the principal when Thabo arrives; on poor living conditions and racial dynamics of school; during Thabo's time there the institution transferred from an independent mission school to a state school under Bantu education; 1956 matriculants wrote the more demanding JHB exams but were banned from entering white universities; on political discussion/activism at school, met with older activists at Fort Hare (followed events like the forced removals and built up of Congress of the People); Thabo joined SOYA the NEUM's youth wing, Shaw House where he lived was SOYA territory, but recruited into ANC when he was 14; March 1957 Mbeki joined a protest against quality of the food, 1957 a turbulent year nationwide (bus boycott in Johannesburg, beginning of rural uprising); Govan is PE news editor for New Age, organising and doing underground work at night; in 1959 Mbeki led the class boycott at Lovedale, him over 200 other students expelled (students could apply for readmission if they signed a loyalty letter to school); Govan Mbeki's New Age article The Rape of Lovedale argues the school is run like a mine compound; Mbeki returns to Mbewuleni, studies for matric under his mother's supervision.
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