Obituary

Lucia Raadschelders: Dutch heroine who fought for SA freedom

09 December 2018 - 00:00

By Chris Baron

Lucia Raadschelders, who has died in Johannesburg at the age of 64, ran safe houses for the ANC in Swaziland and played a key role in Operation Vula, a top-secret Umkhonto we Sizwe mission to infiltrate leaders and weapons into SA and prepare the ground for a possible overthrow of the apartheid government.

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