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ZA COM RCB-0680
Title
117 days [One hundred seventeen days] : An account of confinement and interrogation under the South African ninety-day detention law
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Printed matter ; 143 pages
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd
Place of publication: London
ISBN: 0-7475-0233-1
1988
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd
Place of publication: London
ISBN: 0-7475-0233-1
1988
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(1925–1982)
Biographical history
Academic, journalist and anti-apartheid and women’s rights activist. Married Joe Slovo, 1949. Met Mandela while attending the University of the Witwatersrand. Arrested, charged and then acquitted in the Treason Trial. Fled to Swaziland with her children during the 1960 State of Emergency. Detained in solitary confinement for ninety days in 1963 and fled to the UK on her release. Lived in exile in Mozambique from 1977 and was killed by a parcel bomb there on 17 August 1982.
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Acquisition method: Resource Centre ; Accessioned by: Boniswa & Jill
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- English
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NMCM ; Reading Room ; RC-F
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- First, Ruth (Subject)
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Nelson Mandela Foundation
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Final
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- English