https://www.ruthfirstpapers.org.uk/taxonomy/term/1127/all en https://www.ruthfirstpapers.org.uk/content/494 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Letter with a poem, given to Alpheus Manghezi by Bento Sitoe in September 1982, shortly after Ruth First&#039;s assassination. (This letter was read as part of Alpheus Manghezi&#039;s talk at the symposium A Revolutionary Life: Ruth First 1925-1982 in London on June 7, 2012.)</p> </div></div></div> Wed, 22 Aug 2012 09:03:15 +0000 import.manager 494 at https://www.ruthfirstpapers.org.uk https://www.ruthfirstpapers.org.uk/content/490 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>A report produced by the CEA in 1981. English language. This copy was given to the Ruth First Papers project by Colin Darch.</p> </div></div></div> Fri, 10 Aug 2012 07:09:30 +0000 import.manager 490 at https://www.ruthfirstpapers.org.uk https://www.ruthfirstpapers.org.uk/content/478 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Marc Wuyts&#039; copy of the Mozambican Miner report. A report on Mozambican miners produced by the Centro de Estudos Africanos at Universidade Eduardo Mondlane in Maputo, 1977. The research was directed by Ruth First and conducted by up to 40 other researchers and activists.</p> </div></div></div> Thu, 19 Jul 2012 00:25:56 +0000 import.manager 478 at https://www.ruthfirstpapers.org.uk https://www.ruthfirstpapers.org.uk/content/477 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>A public meeting to mark ten years since Ruth&#039;s assassination, with Nelson Mandela, Joe Slovo, Shawn and Robyn Slovo, Oliver Tambo, Govan Mbeki and others. Recorded by Don Pinnock.</p> </div></div></div> Thu, 19 Jul 2012 00:25:56 +0000 import.manager 477 at https://www.ruthfirstpapers.org.uk https://www.ruthfirstpapers.org.uk/content/476 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>A note left for Alpheus by Ruth First, arranging their first meeting in Maputo in 1978.</p> </div></div></div> Mon, 16 Jul 2012 23:58:02 +0000 import.manager 476 at https://www.ruthfirstpapers.org.uk https://www.ruthfirstpapers.org.uk/content/474 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Ruth First&#039;s scrapbook of newspaper cuttings from 1948. Many articles are unauthored.</p> </div></div></div> Thu, 05 Jul 2012 13:38:12 +0000 import.manager 474 at https://www.ruthfirstpapers.org.uk https://www.ruthfirstpapers.org.uk/content/464 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>An interview conducted by Vanessa Rockel in 2012 with Alpheus Manghezi. Part of a series carried out at the Institute of Commonweath Studies as part of the Ruth First Papers project.</p> </div></div></div> Thu, 05 Jul 2012 13:38:12 +0000 import.manager 464 at https://www.ruthfirstpapers.org.uk https://www.ruthfirstpapers.org.uk/content/466 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>'By God I am confused'. exclaimed Colonel Gadafi at one Libyan popular conference. Where Libya is concerned, who isn't?</p></div></div></div> Thu, 05 Jul 2012 13:38:12 +0000 import.manager 466 at https://www.ruthfirstpapers.org.uk https://www.ruthfirstpapers.org.uk/content/467 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>A letter from Ruth First to Odeh Aburdene at Tufts University, requesting his research on oil in Libya.</p> </div></div></div> Thu, 05 Jul 2012 13:38:12 +0000 import.manager 467 at https://www.ruthfirstpapers.org.uk https://www.ruthfirstpapers.org.uk/content/468 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>A document with typewritten anwers to questions that Ruth First submitted to Gaddafi in July 1971, with annotations and notes.</p> </div></div></div> Thu, 05 Jul 2012 13:38:12 +0000 import.manager 468 at https://www.ruthfirstpapers.org.uk https://www.ruthfirstpapers.org.uk/content/469 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>A letter from Ruth First to Neil Middleton at Penguin books, confirming the outline and structure of Libya: the Elusive Revolution.</p> </div></div></div> Thu, 05 Jul 2012 13:38:12 +0000 import.manager 469 at https://www.ruthfirstpapers.org.uk https://www.ruthfirstpapers.org.uk/content/470 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>In this powerful and concentrated exam­ ination of army interventions in African politics, Ruth First produces a general theory of power for independent states which goes a long way towards explain­ ing why they are so vulnerable to military coups. She gives detailed accounts of the coups in Nigeria,the Sudan and Ghana, and includes material on the role of the army in Algeria and Egypt,showing the kinds of conflict which lead to the situation where the political machinery is short-circuited and guns do the leading.</p></div></div></div> Thu, 05 Jul 2012 13:38:12 +0000 import.manager 470 at https://www.ruthfirstpapers.org.uk https://www.ruthfirstpapers.org.uk/content/471 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Ruth First&#039;s scrapbook of newspaper cuttings from 1949 to 1950. Many articles are unauthored.</p> </div></div></div> Thu, 05 Jul 2012 13:38:12 +0000 import.manager 471 at https://www.ruthfirstpapers.org.uk https://www.ruthfirstpapers.org.uk/content/472 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Ruth First&#039;s scrapbook of newspaper cuttings from 1948 to 1949. Many articles are unauthored.</p> </div></div></div> Thu, 05 Jul 2012 13:38:12 +0000 import.manager 472 at https://www.ruthfirstpapers.org.uk https://www.ruthfirstpapers.org.uk/content/473 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Ruth First&#039;s scrapbook of newspaper cuttings from 1947 to 1948. Many articles are unauthored.</p> </div></div></div> Thu, 05 Jul 2012 13:38:12 +0000 import.manager 473 at https://www.ruthfirstpapers.org.uk