146:, a rural area on the outskirts of Mthatha. He was the son of Cyril Thozama Gqweta and Thembani (Nee Mlambo) Gqweta.The greater part of his childhood he spent with his grandparents who were teachers by profession. Sabelo started his primary education at Baziya Mission School at the age of six in 1955. Sabelo was in contact with the PAC underground leaders at the ages of 12 and 13, and was putting pressure on the branch and cell leaders to go to Lesotho for the acquisition of the revolutionary theory. According to the PAC's task force of the early 1960s, the 1963 target date for the great offensive and liberation was emotionally and fanatically looked forward to by the "Africanist" youth.
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