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Published 18 April 2020Updated 18 August 2023

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Lillian Diedericks
Born: 1925 in Red Location, New Brighton, Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape

Lillian Diedericks was born in 1925 in the oldest part of New Brighton township, Red Location (near the railway line), in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape. Her family, classified as Coloured, were forcefully removed from their home by the apartheid government in 1940 when it became a Black only zone.

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