Ruth First
, Communist anti-apartheid activist and mother of GS
, was killed by a letter-bomb in her office at Mondlane University
in Maputo, capital of Mozambique. The powerful explosion blew her body to shreds.
Slovo, Gillian. Every Secret Thing: My Family, My Country. Little, Brown, 1997.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Gillian Slovo
Five hundred people were detained under this law in its first six months. On release they could be re-arrested (as First was as she stood in a phone booth outside the prison, about to tell...
