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Meets Lindiwe Sisulu (BC adherent) and in Swaziland, Jan 1975, meets SA students from Swazi university as a route back home and to assess the depth of BC among ordinary students; 1973 an upsurge of mass militancy, political prisoner such as Harry Gwala and Jacob Zuma released Mozambique's independence under Samora Machel in sight, mass exodus from SA; ANC sets up Eastern from under contingent of South Africans in Swaziland, Mbeki tasked with military recruitment in Swaziland and elected into NEC in 1975 along with Chris Hani, wooing BC adherents into ANC, cross fertilization of ideology; BC a popular anti-apartheid movement since 1964, racially exclusive; Mbeki: we must adopt the progressive aspects of Black Power; Biko of opinion that psychological liberation precedes taking up arms, whereas the ANC asserts that national identity is not an end in itself, that it is through physical confrontation (armed struggle) that people acquire psychological emancipation, Biko believed SASO could broker a union between the ANC and the PAC; Mbeki's contact with South Africans forced him to reconsider textbook Marxism-Leninism; on Mbeki's August 1998 launch of the African Renaissance, his second anthology of speeches titled Africa Define Yourself, contains citations from BC canon, black nationalism part of the foundation of the ANC in the early20th century, Africanism reinvented by Biko in the 1960s, I am an African speech not racially exclusive, Mbeki appropriates and assimilates identity of oppressor and uses it to define himself
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