Thabo Mbeki said joining the ANC Youth League led to his and his peer's expulsion from high school in 1959.
Former president Thabo Mbeki at the Sandton Convention Centre where people gathered to celebrate his 80th birthday.Former president Thabo Mbeki reminisced about his childhood and first attempt to join the ANC in 1952, when he was just 10 years old.
Mbeki shared that he encountered a defiance campaign that was recruiting ANC Youth League volunteers and wanted to be part of it. “They said ‘no, keep the money until you grow a bit bigger and then come back’. We couldn’t join. I joined the ANCYL four years later in 1956. I have stayed there ever since. Fortunately, they have never chased me away,” said Mbeki. “The principal expelled somebody wrongly, thinking that fellow was a member of the league. He wasn’t. We discussed the matter as the league and went on strike, demanding the return of the person wrongly expelled.
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