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Mbeki left Johannesburg in September 1962 with group of exiles, the group was detained in Rustenburg, released and returned to Johannesburg, Joe Modise planned their exit a week later, again arrested by Rhodesian police, imprisoned for 6 weeks, sectarian fights amongst the group, given asylum in Francistown, ANC arranged for a plane to take them to Dar-es-Salaam; during this time: Mandela was sentenced to 5 years imprisonment, Govan Mbeki slipped the country to chair the ANC conference in Lobatse, Bechuanaland, back in SA he went into hiding, was arrested 7 months later at Lilliesleaf; Mbeki left for London in November 1962, his contemporaries resentment (Mbeki alone was sent to the West); about going into exile, the notion of home romantic, idealised and static
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