joined the African National Congress in 1959. He became an active member of Umkhonto we Sizwe in 1962, fjoined the South African Communist Party (SACP) in 1963 same year he was arrested with a group of 45 recruits near Zeerust . Convicted of conspiring to overthrow the Apartheid government and was sentenced to 10 years on Robben Island. After his release from prison, Zuma was instrumental in the re-establishment of ANC underground structures in the Natal province. Left South Africa in 1975 and met Thabo Mbeki in Swaziland, and proceeded to Mozambique, where he dealt with the arrival of thousands of exiles in the wake of the Soweto uprising. Became a member of the ANC National Executive Committee in 1977. He also served as Deputy Chief Representative of the ANC in Mozambique. He served on the ANCs political and military council when it was formed in the mid-1980s, and In 1987 he was appointed Head of Underground Structures and shortly thereafter Chief of the Intelligence Department. Was elected to the politburo of the SACP on April 1989. Following the end of the ban on the ANC in February 1990, he was one of the first ANC leaders to return to South Africa to begin the process of negotiations. In 1990, he was elected Chairperson of the ANC for the Southern Natal region, and took a leading role in fighting political violence in the region between members of the ANC and the Inkatha Freedom party. He was elected the Deputy Secretary General of the ANC in 1991, and in January 1994, he was nominated as the ANC candidate for the Premiership of KwaZulu Natal After the 1994 general election, with the ANC becoming a governing party but having lost KwaZulu-Natal province to the IFP, he was appointed as Member of the Executive Committee (MEC) of Economic Affairs and Tourism for the KwaZulu-Natal provincial government. In December 1994, he was elected National Chairperson of the ANC and chairperson of the ANC in KwaZulu-Natal. He was elected Deputy President of the ANC in 1997 and consequently appointed executive Deputy President of South Africa in June 1999. NguZuma kelowo ke umongameli weANC.
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