117 Days: An Account of Confinement and Interrogation Under the South African 90-Day Detention Law
Author(s): Ruth First
'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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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.
General Fields
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- : Little, Brown Book Group Limited
- : Little, Brown Book Group
- : 0.16
- : 01 December 2010
- : 198mm X 126mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 February 2011
- : books
Special Fields
- : Ruth First
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : 365.45092
- : 192
