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

by Ruth First - £8.99  Virago Press Ltd (2010)
paperback    ISBN 13: 9781844086306 | ISBN 10: 1844086305

'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.
 
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.

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