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4.0
I am not much of a non fiction reader but I was so intrigued by the title that I just had to go ahead and pick this up.
Ruth First was a journalist who was fired pertaining to possession of an illegal newspaper which she edited and was later on arrested under the 90 days rule. She was a white opponent during apartheid and actively worked towards liberation.
I found her account of her time during prison, to be blunt, quite horrifying. I sadly didn't know anything about this rule prior to reading the book but to think that one could be sent to jail simply on a suspiscion gave me chills. Her incorportation of the accounts of other people who were wrongfully detained under this law gave the book momentum and it was interesting to read what different people went through.
The last line of the book was simply upsetting in a horrid way, and possibly true as well. Definitely going to have to research about her life after she went into exile.
Ruth First was a journalist who was fired pertaining to possession of an illegal newspaper which she edited and was later on arrested under the 90 days rule. She was a white opponent during apartheid and actively worked towards liberation.
I found her account of her time during prison, to be blunt, quite horrifying. I sadly didn't know anything about this rule prior to reading the book but to think that one could be sent to jail simply on a suspiscion gave me chills. Her incorportation of the accounts of other people who were wrongfully detained under this law gave the book momentum and it was interesting to read what different people went through.
The last line of the book was simply upsetting in a horrid way, and possibly true as well. Definitely going to have to research about her life after she went into exile.
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