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The existentialist and anarchic Drum generation dominated Johannesburg in 1960s; 1960 year of the Cato Manor riots, the PAC launched anti-pass demonstration, the Sharpeville massacre, followed by a nationwide stay-away and state of emergency; Govan one of the detainees held under the state of emergency; Mbeki arrived in Johannesburg in June 1960 to prepare for A levels in order to do British degree; Fringe country: people of all races live and play together as humans, September 1960 Mbeki moved in with the ANC secretary - general, Duma Nokwe; following the state of emergency Nokwe and Sisulu continued to run the ANC from Macosa House in Ferreirasdorp (where racial boundaries remained blurred); the Rand Youth Club in Macosa House, Sisulu's idea, a social cover for political activism, Mbeki began to socialize with activists from Indian Congress and the Congress of Democrats, he met Ann Nicholson, with whom romantically involved; distinction between the worlds of Mbeki and Nat Nakasa, Mbeki's antipathy towards Nakasa and his kind, the Drum magazine's slave mentality, Lewis Nkosi's New African embraced his outlaw status
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