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Mbeki and the Tambo's; Adelaide Tambo his other mother; during the 1960s: Mbeki the favourite son of both the nationalists and the communists; race as a social determinant, Mbeki read and admired philosophies of negritude (Césaire, Senghor, WEB du Bois, Marcus Garvey, Malcom X, Frantz Fanon) yet he was also a defender non-racialism, Mbeki argued for the admission of any student into the YSS (in 1966), the YSS became the first non-racial arm of the ANC; Mbeki groomed by Slovo for communist leadership; Mbeki's father-son relationship with OR Tambo; Mbeki's return to Sussex in October 1965 to do his Masters in Economics and Development; Essop Pahad arrives at Sussex; 1964. Mbeki establishes the non-racial, non-sectarian South African Students Association (SASA), resistance from the ANC, Mbeki sets up an underground ANC caucus, urged the ANC to find allies in already existing youth and student groups, in early 1966 the ANC YSS is formed; Mbeki the perfectionist; Mbeki's major antagonist Joe Nhlanhla the Moscow Chair of the ASA; ASA students rebelled against strictures of Soviet society and the movement, Mbeki felt brunt of their resentment; Mbeki speech refer to a decline in the quality of our cadres; Mbeki's personal ambitions / destiny
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