Would Ruth First be afraid of the future?

21 August 2016 - 02:01
By Peter Bruce

I tried my best to follow the Ruth First lectures this week. I knew Ruth First a bit so I'm interested. She would pop through London and I collected airport novels for her because she liked them and couldn't get them in Mozambique. She was a nice lady, full of laughter.So as I read some of the speeches made this week to commemorate her I thought about her and wondered what she would think of them.

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