Growing up in Johannesburg in the mid-1990s, I had the great privilege of knowing Helen Suzman, the legendary white anti-apartheid activist and South African parliamentarian who died on New Year’s Day ...
Helen Suzman — one of South Africa's most famous white crusaders against apartheid —died in Johannesburg on Thursday. She was 91. Suzman was the only member of South Africa's all-white parliament who ...
Born into white privilege in an increasingly racist society, Helen Suzman, who died Jan. 1 at 91, was a lifelong contrarian. She served in South Africa’s Parliament from 1953 to 1989, fighting her ...