# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ruth-first
# Generated: 2026-09-02T06:02:05.822Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ruth-first"
name: "Ruth First"
slug: "ruth-first"
description: "Heloise Ruth First OLG was a South African anti-apartheid activist and scholar. She was assassinated in Mozambique, where she was working in exile, by a parcel bomb built by South African police."
tagline: "South African politician (1925-1982)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/RuthFirst.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1925-05-04"
deathDate: "1982-08-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump