Home at last
Shawn Slovo remembers her early years as turbulent. ‘My mom [Ruth First] and my dad [Joe Slovo] were very involved in the anti-apartheid struggle,’ she says. ‘My mother was arrested and detained under the 90-day detention law, and when they released her, she was banned and prevented from leaving the house. They took away our passports, so we applied for an exit permit.’
In 1964, the family arrived in the UK as political refugees. Then just 14, Shawn had to adapt to a new life and unfamiliar circumstances.
