Travelling under the name David Motsamayi, Mandela secretly left South Africa to seek military training and support for the ANC’s armed struggle. His journey was an act of movement diplomacy as well as preparation: he sought relationships with African governments and liberation movements. The trip connected domestic resistance to a wider decolonizing continent, while the apartheid state portrayed such contacts through a security lens.
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What was Mandela seeking during his 1962 trip abroad?
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His trip connected training with efforts to gain support for the ANC.