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Mbeki appears before the UN Special Committee Against Apartheid to plead for the life of his father; Mbeki and the Sussex Anti-Racialist Movement, 3 Nov 1964: the first major anti-apartheid demonstration (to SA House, Trafalgar Square); the Rivonia trial night march; June 1964 election, continuum between apartheid rule in SA and Tory rule in the UK; Mbeki secretly flew to Moscow to lead the ANC delegation to a youth festival (summer 64); November 64 Mbeki travels to Algiers as the movement's student representative at the 10th anniversary celebrations of the Algerian revolution; on the Harlem Renaissance poem Mbeki sent to the Goodings whilst at the Lenin Institute, on poetry and his interest in art not for its own sake but what it could achieve politically; Robert Emmet's (Irish revolutionary) speech from the dock, admired by Mbeki
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