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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.
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. She was assassinated while living in exile.
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.
This article includes material from a work-in-progress, Barbara Harlow’s major book on South African writer and political activist, Ruth First, assassinated in 1982. Ruth First’s own life followed ...
Ruth First (1925-1982) was a socialist, anti-apartheid activist, and scholar who fled South Africa in 1963 and worked in exile in England and Mozambique. She was killed by a parcel bomb in Maputo in 1982, after publishing many influential works on South African and African politics.
Ruth First was a South African communist, journalist and academic who fought against apartheid and promoted freedom. She was killed by a letter bomb in 1982 while working in Mozambique.
Aug 31, 2020 · Born in Johannesburg on 4 May 1925, Ruth Heloise First was a dangerous thorn in apartheid’s flesh and marked down by the regime for elimination. She was assassinated by their hit squads on 17...
