The Economist remembers Helen Suzman, 36-year member of the South African parliament, a progressive gadfly duing the years of apartheid:
She was the sole survivor, for 13 years a one-woman opposition to the relentless consolidation of white rule.
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She was a precious mouthpiece to the world, as she was also the first resort for communists, Jehovah’s Witnesses, banned people, Coloureds resentful of their racial classification, and all the “sad harvest of the seeds of apartheid” that drifted through her office.