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President Cyril Ramaphosa said in a statement he is saddened by the passing of veteran anti-apartheid activist, Blance La Guma, at the age of 95.
The President extended his condolences to the family, friends, comrades and associates of the late veteran in South Africa, the United Kingdom and Cuba, where she lived at various stages of her life.
La Guma, who was a midwife by profession, was instrumental in the formation of the Federation of South African Women and conducted underground political activity as a member of the Communist Party in the 1950s.
She was detained in 1957 for mobilising 300 nurses in a protest against the Nursing Act and was later banned.
La Guma and her husband, intellectual and author, Alex La Guma, went into exile in 1966 and she returned to South Africa after the unbanning of the liberation movements.
Born on 30 November
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