One Hundred Seventeen Days: Voices of Resistance - Softcover

First, Ruth

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9780853457909: One Hundred Seventeen Days: Voices of Resistance
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0853457905 ISBN 13: 9780853457909
Publisher: Monthly Review Press, 1965

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

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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.

Review

"[Ruth First's] life, and her death, remains a beacon to all who love liberty." - Nelson Mandela, at the commemoration of the tenth anniversary of Ruth First's murder

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Publisher
Monthly Review Press
Publication date
1965
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0853457905
ISBN 13 
9780853457909
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
117
Rating
  • 3.96 out of 5 stars
    238 ratings by Goodreads

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