Helen Suzman
Also known as Helen Gavronsky Suzman, Helen Gavronsky
South African politician (1917–2009)
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- A digest of the Fagan report
- In No Uncertain Terms - The Memoirs of Helen Suzman
- New lines in Native policy
- A digest of the native laws (Fagan) Commission
- How the United States should react to apartheid
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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.
She hosted the meeting that founded the Progressive Party in 1959, and was its only MP in the 160-member House for thirteen years. She was the only member of the South African Parliament to consistently and unequivocally oppose all apartheid legislation.
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