 Joining the MK made her the target of the apartheid security police.Consequently, she fled temporarily to Transkei to avoid arrest but on her return to KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) she was captured by the apartheid police in 1966 and spent the next six months in prison.She probably moved to Umlazi Township in 1967 following the demolition of Umkhumbane informal settlement by the apartheid government.