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B-0151052	biography	Elizabeth Komikie Gumede	1921-2016	✓

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Elizabeth Komikie Gumede

Recorded as one of the most tortured women political prisoners under the apartheid regime, Elizabeth Komikie Gumede was born in 1921. …

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