THE daughter of an anti-apartheid campaigner will give a lecture in her mother’s honour later this week (October 26).
Gillian Slovo, daughter of Ruth First, will give the Ruth First Lecture for the Ruth First Educational Trust.
The lecture will take place in room 145 of Durham University’s Elvet Riverside building, on New Elvet, Durham City, on Friday at 6pm.
Ruth First and her husband Joe Slovo were leading opponents of South Africa’s apartheid regime. Ms First, who lectured at Durham University in the 1970s, was murdered by security forces while in Mozambique in August 1982.
A scholarship named after her pays for one student per year from southern Africa to study a Master’s degree at Durham.
On Friday evening, Ms Slovo will be in discussion with Dr Diana Collecott, who shared a house with Ms First; Baroness Maeve Sherlock, a member of the Equality and Human Rights Commission; and Professor Justin Willis, an expert on African history.
Entry is free and open to all.
Earlier, Ms Slovo will talk about her new novel, An Honourable Man, at Durham Town Hall on Friday at 4pm. Tickets for the event, part of the Durham Book Festival, are priced £4 to £8. For more information, visit durhambookfestival.com
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