Elizabeth Komikie Gumede

Elizabeth Komikie Gumede (, 28 October 1921 – 1 August 2016) was a South African anti-apartheid activist.

Biography Gumede was born in 1921 in Christiana, South Africa.

Gumede was an anti-apartheid activist as a member and operative of the Azanian People's Liberation Army (APLA), the underground military wing of the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania. With John Ganya and Nabboth Ntshuntsha she recruited people to the party, sent them to neighbouring countries for military training and received them when they infiltrated the country. and her niece Kate Serokolo were arrested and were sentenced to five years in prison under the Suppression of Communism Act for assisting the guerrilla fighters. Gumede was transferred to several different prisons, including Potchefstroom, and Kroonstad (where she met fellow activists Thandi Modise and Winnie Mandela), and to improve their living conditions. This was denied.

Gumede was granted the Order of Mendi for Bravery in Bronze by the President of South Africa in 2006 "for bravely contributing to the struggle against apartheid."

She lived in Chiawelo, Soweto, Gauteng, and died in 2016. Her son Daniel Mofokeng became a major general in the South African National Defence Force.