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Ruth First

Ruth First
South African journalist Ruth First was a lifelong opponent of apartheid. Her newspaper articles and books were eventually banned and she was arrested. She went into exile in 1964, and lectured and wrote extensively on South Africa before being killed by a letter bomb in 1982.
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