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- Born
- 1925
- Died
- 1982
- Works
- 15
Top works
- No easy walk to freedom
- Exposure
- One hundred and seventeen days
- The South African connection: Western investment in apartheid
- O mineiro moçambicano
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Key facts
- Born
- Heloise Ruth First , ( 1925-05-04 ) 4 May 1925, Johannesburg , South Africa
- Died
- 17 August 1982 (1982-08-17) (aged 57), Maputo , Mozambique
- Occupation
- Anti- apartheid activist
- Spouse
- Joe Slovo
- Children
- Shawn Slovo , Gillian Slovo , Robyn Slovo
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Ruth
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- South Africa
- Place of birth
- Johannesburg
- Place of death
- Maputo
- Spouse
- Joe Slovo
- Occupation
- political activist
- Educated at
- University of the Witwatersrand
- Employer
- Durham University
- Political party
- African National Congress
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Image
- RuthFirst.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1925-05-04
- date of death
- 1982-08-17
- cause of death
- letter bomb
- manner of death
- homicide
- Commons category
- Ruth First
- name in native language
- Ruth First
- subject has role
- martyr
- P12749
- Ursula Wyss
Sources (1)
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Family and education
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ruth First” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.