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FESTER, Gertrude Magdalene Nethania

Age 36

Description
A UDF and United Women's Congress (UWCO) activist who was detained in Maitland, Cape Town, on 18 May 1988 and held for three and a half months under section 29, in solitary confinement. She was also interrogated, threatened and psychologically tortured by named members of the Security Branch. She spent a further nine months in custody in Pollsmoor prison on trial with thirteen other ANC members for terrorism. Charges against her were withdrawn in March 1990.

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