Jama Mbeki

He is noted for his family’s prominence in the African National Congress (ANC) and the South African Communist Party (SACP) and his political activism later on in exile. He pursued legal studies at Roma University in Lesotho before completing a Bachelor of Laws at the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom. After his studies, he settled in Botswana, where he married and had three children. ==Political activism and disappearance==

In 1982, Mbeki and his wife and their three daughters were residing in exile in Botswana. On the eve of his scheduled court appearance -having been arrested on charges of fraud and accessory to murder, Mbeki vanished without a trace. Mbeki's early life was shaped in Lesotho, where, from the age of ten, he was raised by the Moerane family, who were stalwarts of the Africanist Basutoland Congress Party (BCP). The BCP, an offshoot of the African National Congress (ANC) with closer ideological ties to the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC), provided Jama with his first political affiliations. As a student leader, he went underground in 1974 when the BCP was forced into exile, and later helped establish the insurgent Lesotho Liberation Army (LLA). ==See also==