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117 Days: An Account of Confinement and Interrogation Under the South African 90-Day Detention Law

117 Days: An Account of Confinement and Interrogation Under the South African 90-Day Detention Law

by RuthFirst (Author)

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    Paperback 2010

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Synopsis

In prison you see only the moves of the enemy. Prison is the hardest place to fight a battle.'

117 Days is Ruth First's personal account of her detention under the iniquitous '90-day' law of 1963. There was no warrant, no charge and no trial - only suspicion.

This sparsely written and unique record tells of her experiences of solitary confinement, constant interrogation and instantaneous re-arrest on release - lightened by humorous portraits of governors, matrons, wardresses and interrogators, seen as the tools of the police state.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 192
 Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
Published: 02 Dec 2010
ISBN 10: 1844086305
ISBN 13: 9781844086306
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[Ruth First's] life, and her death, remains a beacon to all who love liberty. - Nelson Mandela, at the commemoration of the tenth anniversary of Ruth First's murder
Author Bio
Ruth First was a journalist and academic and, along with her husband Joe Slovo, strongly active in the anti-apartheid movement. She escaped South Africa in 1964. In 1982 she was working at a university in Mozambique. On the 17th August she opened a letter bomb addressed to her by the South African security police.