Long live Ruth First by Gavin Williams, 17 August 2019
… writer and activist, Ruth First, was assassinated by a letter bomb sent by the South African Security Police in … run by the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA). In 1946, during the strike of the African Mineworkers Union, the … rides the waves here, as elsewhere,” she wrote to me in a letter from from Dar es Salaam in 1975. In 1979, she took on …