which tells the story African Freedom fighter.
They did come again. But this time t with an order for her arrest. Instead it was with a package bomb which blew her apart.
They arrested her without trial, or charges, N N'DABERI reviews the Penguin publication 117 DAYS of RUTH FiRST, a brave South When they released Ruth First from detention after 117 days she was 'convinced that it was not the end, that they would come again'.
Just using the notorious 90-day' law Then they decided to kill her, so the regime again without trial or charges sentenced her to death and duly carried out its bloody sentence.
Penguin has done a useful service by bringing edition of this little book in which Ruth describes her CAPERCE in South Africa's jails.
The cover of the book tels us why che WaS incarcerated and she died SUCCCHIV hideously. It shows Ruth addressing DICINE. Behind her is banner which says Freedom from That was Ruth First's - the struggle to rid South Africa of its tyrannous and violent white ruling class. She fought for a South Africa, all peace and harmony. led her to join the ComParty and the African National Сопfor the rest of her loyal member of the South African Communist Party, probably one most Stalinist of Stalinist parties outside Albania, she was a person of integrity and courage When the USSR switched its posi tions on Eritrea's right to SCIT determination, she stayed the Leninist principle of -SCIT determination.
She questioned the Stalinist theory of the revolution stages saw that the national democratic revolution in South Africa would merge into the socialist revoluLIDE The courage which she fought for her political convictions sustained her during her time in jail. This side of her personality comes out in the book. The unending interrogations; the dreadful numbing effect of isolation; the never-ending fear that someone has broken and "leaked" putting everyone else in danger.
All that she overcame by an indominatable will survive. Because survival meant he struggle for liberatio and socialism.
Her courage stands out like a beacon in contrast to her torturers and tormen tors who had to resort to the cowardly weapon of a parcel bomb to destroy her. They killed Ruth First but they will never kill the noble ideas that she gave her life for.