117 Days

First, Ruth

ISBN 10: 0853457905 / ISBN 13: 9780853457909

Published by Monthly Review Press, New York, 1989

About this Item

Covers have minor wear and creasing. Corners lightly bumped. Binding tight. No writing. 170 pages. One woman's account of her arrest under the Ninety-Day Law in the 1960s and the months spent in prison followed by re-arrest. Size: 5.5 x 8.25.

Seller Inventory # 041610

Bibliographic Details

• Title: 117 Days
• Publisher: Monthly Review Press, New York
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0853457905
• ISBN 13: 9780853457909
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • History/Sociology

About this title

Synopsis

A personal account of the struggle against apartheid in South Africa chronicles the author's imprisonment in the early 1960s for her participation in the opposition movement of the African National Congress

About the Author

Ruth First was a journalist and academic and, along with her husband Joe Slovo, strongly active in the anti-apartheid movement. She escaped South Africa in 1964. In 1982 she was working at a university in Mozambique. On the 17th August she opened a letter bomb addressed to her by the South African security police.