Ruth First | |
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| Born | 4 May 1925 Johannesburg, South Africa |
| Died | 17 August 1982 Maputo Mozambique |
| Cause of death | Assassination |
| Political party | SACP |
Ruth First (4 May 1925 – 17 August 1982) was a South African anti-apartheid activist and intellectual. She spent 117 days in jail in 1963 and was a member of the liberation struggle along with Nelson Mandela and Joe Slovo. In 1970, she published The Barrel of a Gun, a study of coups throughout Africa. She noted that many African countries fell to military dictatorships after becoming independent. A South African death squad killed her in Mozambique in 1982.[1]
References
- ↑ Vijay Prashad (2008). The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World: 'La Paz' (pp. 144–5). [PDF] The New Press. ISBN 9781595583420 [LG]