At the end of the 1980s, when he joined the ANC in exile and multiplied the missions, he was kidnapped by apartheid agents in neighboring Swaziland (now Eswatini), tortured, then sentenced for "treason" and sent back to Robben Island.
Mu mpera z'imyaka ya za 1980, ubwo yinjiraga muri ANC mu buhungiro, yashimuswe n'abakozi ba apartheid mu baturanyi ba Swaziland (ubu ni Eswatini), arakatirwa ,akorerwa iyicarubozo, ubuhemu" maze asubira ku kirwa cya Robben.