Joe Slovo

Her husband had already left South Africa. Their grandmother looked after the children.

GS 's father, Joe Slovo , was leader of the South African Communist Party , white South Africa's bogeyman. Born Jewish and Lithuanian, he had arrived at ten in South Africa (where his father...

DL 's parents knew famous political figures like Nelson and Winnie Mandela , Ruth First , Joe Slovo , and Helen Joseph . Deborah's sister had Joseph as namesake-godmother,, while Deborah was...

When she told her father (who was already ill with cancer) that she wanted to learn more about the past of Ruth First (his wife, her mother), to enable her to write this book, he...

She dedicated the book to her parents, Ruth and Joe .

GS sets out here to convey what her extraordinary parents, especially her mother, were like, and what it was like for herself and her sisters to be their children. Ruth First, she says, was in...

GS and her husband visited her outlaw father in Mozambique in 1983, and she returned to that counry again in 1996. In 1990 she visited South Africa to promote her novel Ties of Blood at...