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  2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Shawn_SlovoShawn Slovo - Wikipedia

    Shawn Slovo (born 1950) is a South African screenwriter, best known for the film A World Apart, based on her childhood under apartheid. She is the daughter of South African Communist Party leaders Joe Slovo and Ruth First.

  3. Shawn Slovo Death Fact Check. Shawn is alive and kicking and is currently 74 years old. Please ignore rumors and hoaxes. If you have any unfortunate news that this page should be update with, please let us know using this form.

  4. ruthfirsttrust.webspace.durham.ac.uk › who-wasRFET: Ruth First

    • Who Was Ruth First?
    • Celebrating Ruth First Project
    • Tributes to Ruth First
    • Ruth First by Diana Collecott

    The Ruth First Educational Trust is named after the campaigning journalist, writer, anti-apartheid activist and Durham University Sociology lecturer who was assassinated in August 1982 by a letter bomb sent by the South African police. Heloise Ruth First was born in 1925 in Johannesburg, South Africa. She studied Sociology and Social Anthropology a...

    A research project based in Durham University’s Centre for Humanities Engaging Science and Society, led by Professor Nancy Cartwright. The team is documenting First’s connections with Durham and examining her career as an inspiring example of inter-connection between objective academic research and political action.

    The Ruth First Papers Project: aims to build up a digital archive of a selection of her writings and related materials held at the Institute of Commonwealth Studiesin London. In August 1992, on the 10th anniversary of Ruth’s death, Nelson Mandela paid tributeto her courage and freedom of spirit: “Ruth spent her life in the service of the people of ...

    Diana shared a house with Ruth in Durham in the 1970s. Read her tribute to Ruth here. Books by Ruth First

  5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Ruth_FirstRuth First - Wikipedia

    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.

  6. Nov 5, 2019 · Eleven years ago, when screenwriter Shawn Slovo (A World Apart) approached South African Patrick Chamusso about making a film on Chamusso's life, the ex-political prisoner couldn't help but be...

  7. Born in 1925 in Johannesburg, South Africa, the daughter of radical-socialist Jewish immigrants from the Baltic, Ruth First died in 1982, the victim of a letter bomb sent to her office at Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo, Mozambique, by the South African Bureau of State Security.

  8. Slovo's parents were early members of the outlawed African National Congress; Her mother reported on the injustices of apartheid for alternative newspapers, while her father defended blacks in the court system. Slovo's mother was murdered in exile by a parcel bomb.

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