The South African Connection;: Western Investment in Apartheid

Ruth First

Barnes&Noble Books

In prison you see only the moves of the enemy. Prison is the hardest place to fight a battle.'117 Days is Ruth First's personal account of her detention under the iniquitous '90-day' law of 1963. There was no warrant, no charge and no trial - only suspicion.This sparsely written and unique record tells of her experiences of solitary confinement, constant interrogation and instantaneous re-arrest on release - lightened by humorous portraits of governors, matrons, wardresses and interrogators, seen as the tools of the police state.

117 Days

Literature & Fiction

Penguin??Books

Barrel of a Gun: Political Power in Africa and the Coup d'Etat (African)

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Penguin African Library

The South African Connection: Western Investment in Apartheid

Jonathan Steele

Christabel Gurney

Barnes_and_Noble

117 Days: An Account of Confinement and Interrogation Under the South African 90-Day Detention Law (Modern Classics)

Biographies & Memoirs

Penguin Classics

Olive Schreiner

Ann Scott

Arts & Literature

Schocken Books

117 Days: An Account of Confinement and Interrogation Under the South African 90-Day Detention Law

Community & Culture

Virago

<p>Ruth First, born in 1925, held multiple roles during the struggles of her time as a communist militant, journalist, researcher and leading intellectual in South Africa. Until her assassination in 1982, she was a committed anti-apartheid activist and was one of the many defendants of the Treason Trial and imprisoned without charge in solitary confinement for 117 days in 1963. Ruth First on a range of topics including the landmark 1956 Women's March, the workings of the apartheid state, and the history of anti-apartheid armed struggle against this state, introduced by an essay on First's life and legacy, written by Vashna Jagarnath, a labour activist who works in the office of the general secretary of the National Union of Metal workers of South Africa (NUMSA).</p>

Selected Writings

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