Jama Mbeki

Jama Mbeki (born 1948 - disappeared 1982 ) was a political activist, law student and the last born son of Govan Mbeki, a renowned South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, and his wife Epainette Mbeki. Mbeki disappeared during the anti-apartheid struggle in exile in 1982 and was never found to date.

Early life and education 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.

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).