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Irish patriot Robert Emmet's speech from the dock; Mbeki's relationship with Mick Harmel (SACP's chief ideologue, editor of African Communist), the Harmels bohemian household in the northern suburbs, Barbara Harmel and Mbeki; February 1962: Mbeki becomes Sached's first ever student accepted by a London University; Govan Mbeki placed in solitary confinement for involvement in botched explosions; Government introduced the Sabotage Act; Govan Mbeki at Lilliesleaf Farm in Rivonia where he developed a strategy for guerrilla war: Operation Mayibuye; Mandela's arrest, 5 August 1962; arrangement for Mbeki to go to Sussex University, Mbeki reluctant, called in by Govan Mbeki and Duma Nokwe; new phase of ANC's history: the exile movement, ANC once again a elite preserve of 2 groups: guerrillas prosecuting armed struggle and international lobbyists and propagandists; 1962: emigration escalated, OR Tambo first of ANC to leave, to set up ANC in exile; Mbeki's confrontations with his father, Nokwe and Tambo on whether to fight or to study; circulation of literature like Frantz Fanon's Wretched of the Earth (1962 year of Algerian liberation), argues that armed struggle mobilises people and Che Guevara's Guerrilla Warfare; MK attacks across the country before the high command is arrested in 1963; Mandela the Black Pimpernel, met group of 19 exiles before their departure.
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