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FIRST, Ruth

Age 57

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A leading ANC/SACP intellectual and the director of research and investigation at the Centre for African Studies at Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo, Mozambique who was killed in her office by a letter bomb on 17 August 1982. Before going into exile, Ms First, from Johannesburg, had also been detained and kept in solitary confinement for one hundred and seventeen days in 1963. Two members of Security Branch headquarters were granted amnesty for her killing (AC/2000/082). At the time of publication, the First family was contesting the decision through the courts.

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THE KILLING OF RUTH FIRST, JEANETTE CURTIS SCHOON AND KATRYN SCHOON5 9 120. On 30 May 2000, the Amnesty Committee granted amnesty to Messrs Craig Michael Williamson and Roger Howard Leslie Raven for the killing of Ms Ruth First in Maputo on 17 August 1982 and of Ms Jeannette Schoon and her ...
... Simon Makana, Florence Moposho, Gertrude Shope, Chris Hani, Thabo Mbeki, Johnny Makathini. Membership of NEC between 1985 and 1990 For the first time the ANC had a fully-elected NEC, consisting of 28 members. PRESIDENT: OR Tambo TREASURER: Thomas Nkobi SECRETARY GENERAL: Alfred Nzo ...
three stations of Fort Jackson, Egerton and Mount Ruth that served the township. The state of emergency had been declared the evening before and the first nightly curfew had just ended at 04:00. Many commuters were probably still unaware of the emergency or the curfew. They were met at each ...
... Beauty Monnye MANKUROANE, Elizabeth Mamatchaba MANKUROANE, John MANKUROANE, Matshidisho Monica MANKUROANE, Samuel Morwagabusi MANKURUANE, Ruth MANNS, Ruben MANONG, Emily MANONG, Gertrude MANONG, Mzolisi MANONG, Nozuko Denise MANONG, Owen MANONG, Stanley MANONG, Vernon Moyisisi MANQA, ...
NADITSE, Constance Bengbahlogo NAGE, Maxwell Thamsanqa NAGI, Poyinda Masokisi NAIDOO, Indris NAIDOO, Phyllis Vasendha Ruth NAIDOO, Sahdhan NAIDOO, Shantharothie NAIDU, Surendra NAIK, Kantilal Chhangalal NAKA, Bafo NAKEDI, Johannes Lefu NAKEDI, Tebogo NAKELE, Bongani NAKO, Mbulelo Boy NAKO, Toto ...
Victor Goalatlhwe PIYOSE, Hammilton PLAATJIE, Andile Alfred PLAATJIE, Ezekiel Lebuso PLAATJIE, Luthando Patrick PLAATJIE, Napo Boy PLAATJIE, Nozipho Ruth PLAATJIE, Rammusi Patrick PLAATJIE, Sydney Themba PLAATJIE, Thomas Mokoena PLAATJIES, Albert Jacques PLAATJIES, Andries Pierce PLAATJIES, Pieter ...
... HLONGWANE, Paul Hickson HLONGWANE, Phakamani HLONGWANE, Phillip Smanga HLONGWANE, Phumlani HLONGWANE, Pretty Elsie HLONGWANE, Richard HLONGWANE, Ruth HLONGWANE, Samuel HLONGWANE, Sebenzile Sabhina HLONGWANE, Sibusiso Erick HLONGWANE, Siphiwe Solomon HLONGWANE, Sweleni Sibengile HLONGWANE, ...
... Willie BOTHA, Zamikhaya Wilberforce BOTIPE, Ilan BOTO, Themba BOTSOERRE, Sebezile Jacob BOTTOMAN, Mqondeli Wilmot BOVU, David BOVU, Nompumelelo Ruth BOWERS, Gordon Edward BOWERS, Maria Elisabet BOYCE, Nomandi Christina BOYI, Makhi BOZO, Tabani Candra BRANDER, Carel Carolus BRAUDE, Benjamin ...
... independence of Zimbabwe is proclaimed. The Southern African Development Co-ordination Conference (SADCC) is founded. 1981 In the Matola raid, the first major cross-border raid into Mozambique, twenty people, including three SADF members, are killed in January. At the Simonstown Beraad ...
... Mathews Moeketsi FINI, Dingaan FINI, Phumzile FINI, Rebecca FINIZA, Ndileka Ivy FINIZA, Pumzile Wilson FINTI, Samuel Funekile FINYE, Lukhanyiso FIRST, Ruth FISANT, Cecilia FISANT, Nontsikelelo Chrissie FISCHER, Bram (Braam??) FISHA, Phuti Phineas FISHER, Louis FISHER, Segegenyane Daniel ...
... the leaders of UDF affiliates. Sixty-six people were detained that night, and at least four hundred over the following two weeks. 184 The first state of emergency in the Western Cape lasted 132 days and approximately 1 300 people were detained, including teachers, clergy, journalists, ...
... SADF cross-border raid into Lesotho, killing forty-two ANC supporters and Lesotho civilians, and also in the wake of the assassination of Ms Ruth First in Maputo by the security forces. In terms of stated ANC policy, military targets including personnel [were] justifiable, even if these ...
... during the 1960 to 1973 period for which South African security operatives can be said to have been responsible. 1974–1979 212 The first known cross-border assassinations in the 1974–79 period occurred in February 1974, when, within two weeks of each other, MK founder member ...
... Branch had been responsible for the story that had surfaced, suggesting that Mr Joe Slovo had been responsible for the death of his wife, Ruth First. 351. Captain Willem Coetzee testified that he had given Major de Kock a letter to place at the ambush scene of three SANSCO107 students in ...
... also referred to regional TREWITS meetings made up of representatives from the different intelligence structures .23 Outside South A f rica : Ruth First , Jabulile Nyawose, Petros Nyawose, Jeanette Curtis Schoon , Vernon N k a dime n g. Inside South A f r i c a : Griffiths Mxenge, Siphiwe ...
... order to obey this o rd e r, hijacked a vehicle on 3 February 1993, killing the civilian driver, Mr WS F roneman, and injuring the passenger, Ms Ruth Jennifer Barker. Attacks on police and skirmishes 184. A number of skirmishes took place between SDU members and the police, often while police ...
the people who were killed were extremely well-known and their deaths could hardly have been ignored. For example, Brigadier Schoon testified he had first learned of the death of Ms Jeanette Curtis Schoon and her daughter Katryn Schoon in the newspapers and at the morning ‘Sanhedrin’. Asked ...
... gross violations of human rights explicitly included mental or psychological torture in its definition of torture. Nevertheless, commenting on the first five weeks of hearings, Fiona Ross wrote that “the main focus has been on bodies and on the visible embodiment of suffering”.19 It was not ...
... discovering that some software was being used unlicensed, the Commission applied for ‘amnesty’ during the Business Software Alliance (BSA) Truth or Dare campaign to legalise software. This ensured freedom from prosecution provided that the organisation legalised all its software within a ...
245 On 17 August 1982, Ms Ruth First, then Director of the Centre for African Studies at Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo, was killed in her office by a parcel bomb. On 28 June 1984, ANC official Ms Jeanette Curtis Schoon and her eightyear-old daughter, Katryn, were killed by a similar device ...
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