Helen Suzman: a lone voice for liberty

SOURCE: The fabric of dissent: public intellectuals in South Africa
OUTPUT TYPE: Chapter in Monograph
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2020
TITLE AUTHOR(S): G.Pienaar
SOURCE EDITOR(S): V.Reddy, N.Bohler-Muller, G.Houston, M.Schoeman, H.Thuynsma
KEYWORDS: INTELLIGENTSIA, POLITICS, SUZMAN, HELEN
DEPARTMENT: Developmental, Capable and Ethical State (DCES)
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 11899
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/15921
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/15921

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Abstract

It is hard to imagine what it must have been like for Helen Suzman, an English-speaking Jewish woman, to pit herself against the massed majority of the National Party, most of whom were Afrikaner men. But she did it day in and day out. For 13 years she was the lone anti-apartheid voice in Parliament. She stood up and spoke out for her beliefs with a quiet authority that has echoed over the decades.

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