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Heloise Ruth First OLG (4 May 1925 – 17 August 1982) was a South African anti-apartheid activist and scholar. She was assassinated in Mozambique , where she was working in exile, by a parcel bomb built by South African police.
May 29, 2024 · Ruth First (born May 4, 1925, Johannesburg, South Africa—died August 17, 1982, Maputo, Mozambique) was a South African activist, scholar, and journalist known for her relentless opposition to South Africa’s discriminatory policy of apartheid.
Journalist, academic and political activist, Ruth Heloise First was born on 4 May 1925. She was the daughter of Jewish immigrants Julius and Matilda (neé Levetan) First. Julius, a furniture manufacturer, was born in Latvia and came to South Africa in 1906 at the age of 10. Matilda came to South Africa from Lithuania when she was four years old.
Ruth First was a South African journalist and activist who exposed the brutality of apartheid and helped found the South African Congress of Democrats. She was killed by a letter bomb in 1982 by South African security agents.
Aug 17, 2022 · Ruth First remembered 40 years after her death. By Melody Emmett. On 17 August, 40 years ago, the inveterate socialist Ruth First was assassinated in Maputo under the orders of Apartheid spy...
Ruth First was a South African sociologist, writer and anti-apartheid activist who was assassinated by a letter bomb in 1982. She taught at Durham University and wrote books on African politics and human rights.
May 5, 2020 · Ruth First was a journalist and a communist who exposed the horrors of apartheid and participated in the liberation movement. She was arrested, detained, and killed by the government for her activism and her book 117 Days documents her experience in solitary confinement.
