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Helen Suzman, OMSG, DBE (née Gavronsky; 7 November 1917 – 1 January 2009) was a South African anti-apartheid activist and politician. She represented a series of liberal and centre-left opposition parties during her 36-year tenure in the whites-only, National Party -controlled House of Assembly of South Africa at the height of apartheid .
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From 1961 to 1974 she was the sole antiapartheid member of Parliament. Serving as an advocate for the disenfranchised, Suzman was in constant conflict with her conservative colleagues—particularly P.W. Botha—and she often cast the lone vote against an increasing number of apartheid measures.
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Jan 1, 2009 · As the sole voice of South Africa’s oppressed, Suzman became known for her strong public criticism of the governing National Party's policies of apartheid at a time when this was unusual amongst white people. She found herself even more of an outsider, as she was an English-speaking Jewish woman in a parliament dominated by male Afrikaners.
May 28, 2017 · Although Helen Suzman is not as well known as Mother Teresa, Mahatma Gandhi, or Nelson Mandela, she played a pivotal role in re-fashioning South Africa. During her thirty-six years serving in South Africas Parliament, she was often the sole opposition to anti-apartheid from within the Parliamentary government.
Jan 2, 2009 · Helen Suzman, the internationally renowned anti-apartheid campaigner who befriended the imprisoned Nelson Mandela and offered an often lonely voice for change among South Africa’s white...
Her struggle against apartheid won her the United Nations Human Rights Award in 1978 and in 1980, the Medallion of Heroism. The Helen Suzman Foundation was been established to promote liberal democracy in South Africa.
Jan 4, 2009 · Born into white privilege in a society that was becoming progressively more racist, she served as a lawmaker in South Africa’s parliament from 1953 to 1989, fighting government repression of the...
