It was on this day (August 17th) in 1982 that academic and anti-apartheid activist Ruth First was assassinated by the apartheid regime through a parcel bomb while working at the Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo. She has played a huge role in the fight against that brutal system and has been arrested a couple of times. As a journalist she exposed a lot of the atrocities committed by farmers on black labours, something the then regime would never allow to be published. Sadly, too many young people don’t know much about her today. So we though to invite her daughter and former fellow-comrade who was there when the explosion happened to share their memories of this great freedom fighters

Guest: Shawn Slovo – Daughter of Ruth First and Joe Slovo

Guest: Pallo Jordan – Former Minister of Arts and Culture in the Mbeki cabinet and also anti-apartheid activist