FIRST, Ruth

Age 57

Description
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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Human Rights Violation Hearing, Cape Town, Day 2 (10 June 1997)

KTC LEONARD KNIPE HEARINGS

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Human Rights Violation Hearing, Durban (30 August 1996)

DURBAN NUNDLALL RABILALL, FLORENCE MKHIZE, LESLI NAIDU, NELLY NYOKA, KHANYISILE MDLULI, ERNEST MTHETWA, MAVIS MSOMI, GILBERT NDIMANDE, JABU NDLOVU, EUNICE SITHOLE

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Amnesty Hearing, Pretoria, Day 9 (27 August 1999)

PRETORIA FREDERICK DOUGLAS REID HOLTZHAUSEN

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Human Rights Violation Hearing, Soweto, Day 4 (25 July 1996)

SOWETO SAUL OZYNSKI

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Amnesty Hearing, Johannesburg, Day 1 (12 July 1999)

JOHANNESBURG JEWEL MSHLASHENE SISHABA AM 5186 MURDER OF MR BOY BUTHELEZI AND UNLAWFUL POSSESSION OF A FIREARM AND AMMUNITION

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Special Hearing, Johannesburg, Day 1 BROADCAST MEDIA

Johannesburg NOMAVENDA MATHIANE, DENNIS CRUYWAGEN, RAYMOND LOUW, ARRI DE BEER, MAX DU PREEZ