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The Mbeki's difficult marriage; Epainette forced to give up her political life and activism for the family and shop, at the time: the NP government began a programme of political suppression, in 1950 it passed the Suppression of Communism Act, the SACP went underground; Govan Mbeki fell out of the ANC's urban leadership, the newspapers he wrote for were banned, he resigned from the Bhunga; left the Transkei to take a teaching post in Ladysmith, then moved to PE where he worked as full time organiser for the ANC; on being absent from his children's lives, Govan's Marxist understanding of family relationships, should not distract from revolutionary matters, of the family as a political rather than a biological unit; leadership of liberation struggle built around myth of man who gives up family life for the benefit of the people; informed by very traditional notions of masculinity; Govan was not just an absent father because he was a revolutionary; Thabo, Moeletsi, Jama, Linda: their political commitment.
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