Kammala wannan jumla: Ya koma ANC bayan an sake shi daga kurkuku a 1975. A shekara ta 1976 ya zama mataimakin shugaban, tare da Martin Ramokgadi, na kungiyar ANC ta asirce a Johannesburg, wanda aka fi sani da Main Machinery. A wannan lokacin, jami'an tsaro na Afirka ta Kudu sun yi ƙoƙari su kashe shi ta hanyar sanya bam a cikin motarsa, amma an gano shi kafin ya iya fashewa. An sake kama shi bayan da
Tashin Soweto amma 'yan sanda, ba tare da wata hujja ba, ba su iya yin shari'ar da shi ba. An sake shi a shekarar 1977, ya tafi Botswana sannan ya tafi Zimbabwe bayan samun 'yancin kai.