Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Mbeki ya sadaukar da rayuwarsa ga ANC kuma a lokacin da yake gudun hijira an ba shi ƙarin alhakin. Bayan rikicin Soweto na 1976
<unk> wani ɗaliban ɗalibai a garin da ke waje da Johannesburg <unk> ya fara watsa shirye-shiryen rediyo na yau da kullum daga Lusaka, yana ɗaure mabiyan ANC a cikin ƙasar zuwa ga shugabannin da suka yi hijira. Karfafawa 'yan gwagwarmaya gwiwa don ci gaba da matsin lamba kan mulkin wariyar launin fata wani muhimmin bangare ne a yakin neman zaben ANC don 'yantar da kasarsu. A ƙarshen 1970s, Mbeki ya yi tafiye-tafiye da yawa zuwa Amurka don neman tallafi a tsakanin kamfanonin Amurka. Mai ilimi da ban dariya, ya sami abokai da yawa a Birnin New York. An nada Mbeki shugaban sashen yada labarai na ANC a shekarar 1984 sannan ya zama shugaban sashen kasa da kasa a shekarar 1989, yana ba da rahoto kai tsaye ga Oliver Tambo, Shugaban ANC na wancan lokacin. Tambo ya kasance mai koyar da Mbeki na dogon lokaci.