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Vedertaget namn
First, Ruth
Födelsedag
1925-05-04
Avled
1982-08-17
Kön
female
Nationalitet
South Africa
Land (för karta)
South Africa
Födelseort
Johannesburg, South Africa
Dödsort
Maputo, Mozambique
Dödsorsak
assassination by package bomb
Bostadsorter
Johannesburg, South Africa
Maputo, Mozambique
London, England, UK
Utbildning
University of the Witwatersrand (BA) (1946)
Yrken
journalist
political activist
editor (newspaper)
anti-apartheid campaigner
memoirist
biographer
Relationer
Slovo, Joe (husband)
Slovo, Gillian (daughter)
Slovo, Shawn (daughter)
Bernstein, Hilda (colleague)
Organisationer
Congress Alliance
South African Communist Party
African National Congress
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Ruth First was born in South Africa to Jewish parents who had emigrated from Latvia and Lithuania, and grew up in Johannesburg. She became the first person in her family to attend university and earned a bachelor's degree in social studies from the University of the Witwatersrand in 1946. Like her parents, she became a member of the South African Communist Party. She became editor-in-chief of the radical newspaper The Guardian, subsequently banned by the government. In 1949, she married Joe Slovo, a lawyer and fellow anti-apartheid activist and Communist with whom she had three daughters. She and her husband were also prominent members of the African National Congress. From 1956 to 1961, she was one of the key figures in the Congress Alliance. For her activism, she was blacklisted and banned by the government from public speaking, publishing her writing, or attending meetings. In 1963, she was imprisoned and held in isolation without charge for 117 days, the first white woman to be detained under the infamous Ninety-Day Detention Law. The following year, she and her family went into exile in the UK, where she became active in the British Anti-Apartheid Movement. She was a Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, and lectured at the University of Durham. In 1978, she became director of the research training program at the Universidade Eduardo Mondlane in Maputo, Mozambique. There she was assassinated by a letter bomb sent by the South African authorities. She wrote a memoir called 117 Days (1965) about her arrest, imprisonment and interrogation by the South African police, which was later made into a film. Her other books included The Barrel of a Gun: the Politics of Coups d'etat in Africa (1970), Libya: the Elusive Revolution (1974), The Mozambican Miner: a Study in the Export of Labour (1977); and the biography Olive Schreiner (1980), with Anne Scott. Ruth's daughter, writer Gillian Slovo, published her own memoir called Every Secret Thing: My Family, My Country, in 1997. It was adapted into a film called A World Apart (1988), with a screenplay by Ruth's other other daughter Shawn Slovo.
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A hard one to judge.
Ruth First was an anti-Apartheid activist. She dedicated her life to this struggle and was killed because of it, in 1982, by a parcel bomb that she received while living in exile in Mozambique. So, sadly, she didn't live to see the day that ended Apartheid.
This book is an account of 117 days she spent in jail, without charges made against her. The imprisonment was meant to make her talk, give information about other ANC activists. In this book she gives insight in her mental struggle to keep up her good spirits and to keep her mouth shut. It's a rather unemotional account, analytic almost. It's hard for me to say if that is because she was that kind of person, or because - when this book was published - the anti-Apartheid struggle was still in full swing, and she still had to keep information from her former interrogators.

The difficulty in judging this book is in separating the book and its author. The author was a heroine, however, the book is not suberb. It's an important historical account, it gives insight into the cruelties of the Apartheid system. But at the same time, it is strangely cool and distant. And in retrospect, her story doesn't stand out next to those of people like Steve Biko and Nelson Mandela.
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Tinwara | 1 annan recension | Aug 30, 2009 |
2549 Olive Schreiner, by Ruth First and Ann Scott (read 6 Nov 1993) The subject of this book was born 24 March 1855 to a German-born minister and his English wife at Wittebergen, Basutoland (now Lesotho), and died 11 Dec 1920 at Wynberg, South Africa. I read her best known book, The Story of an African Farm, because Vera Brittain talked so much about it in her diary. Schreiner is not a sympathetic figure in my eyes, having lost her religion in early life and being a great believer in 'sexual freedom.' Schreiner was pro-Boer in the Boer War, pro-native thereafter, and anti-war in World War One. Much of the book did not interest me much, but to the extent it was biography it was worth reading.… (mer)
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