Nyorera kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Panguva iyoyo akanga ari mutsigiri wekurwisa rusaruraganda. Pachivande akapfuurira kuita unyanzvi hwokuramba. VaGordon vakashanda paUniversity of Witwatersrand (WITS) Students Representative Council (SRC) kubva muna 1982 kusvika muna 1987 seMutungamiriri weVadzidzi veVadzidzi. Akatungamirira University SRC Administration kubva muna 1982 kusvika muna 1987 mune zvematongerwe enyika zvikuru semutongi wezvematongerwe enyika, achivandudza migumisiro yeSouth African Police uye SAP Security Branch kutyisidzira, chisimba uye kudzvinyirira kuvadzidzi veWITS. Munguva yechipiri yakaziviswa South African State of Emergency muna 1985/6 akashandiswa, pakati pezvimwe zvinhu, semutumwa pakati pevakuru vakuru veyunivhesiti nemumiriri wavo wepamutemo kuendesa magwaro nemaoko kuna Brigadier Jan Coetzee, mukuru wemapurisa paProtea Police Station muSoweto.
, akamirira vadzidzi vakawanda vakanga vasungwa. Ikoku kwakanga kuri apo Soweto yose namataundi makumi matatu namashanu munyika yose zvakatorwa namapoka akachena okuchengetedza eSA.