Ka hoki ki Mqhekezweni i te Hakihea 1940, i kitea e Mandela kua whakaritea e Jongintaba nga marena mo ia me te Tika; i pouri, ka rere atu raua ki Johannesburg ma Queenstown, ka tae atu ki te Paenga-whāwhā 1941. Ahakoa i kitea e Mandela he mahi hei kaitiaki po i Crown Mines, tana "tirohanga tuatahi o te whakapaipai o Awherika ki te Tonga i roto i te mahi", engari i peia ia i te wa i kitea ai e te induna (kaiwhakahaere) he tangata rere. I noho ia ki tetahi whanaunga i George Goch Township, nana i whakauru a Mandela ki te kaihokohoko me te ANC activist Walter Sisulu. I whiwhi te whakamutunga i tetahi mahi hei kaitiaki korero i te umanga ture a Sid Witkin, atheelsky me Eman, he kamupene na Sid Lazarelsky, he tangata rangatira o te iwi Hurai e aroha ana ki te ANC. I te wa i noho ai a Mandela i roto i te umanga Karaitiana, i uru ia ki a Thrasil Radebe a Xhosa me nga mema o te Communist Nat Nat Nat Nat, i tae atu ki te Whare Wananga o South Africa
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