Helen Suzman, OMSG, DBE was a South African anti-apartheid activist and politician. She represented a succession 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 the apartheid era.
She hosted the meeting that founded the Progressive Party in 1959, and was its only MP in the 160-member House for a period of 13 years.
Helen Suzman
BORN: 7 November 1917
HOME TOWN: Germiston, Transvaal, Union of South Africa
PARENT: Frieda Gavronsky (mother) and Samuel Gavronsky (father)
SPOUSE: Moses Suzman
DIED: 1 January 2009 (aged 91)
PLACE OF DEATH: Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
RESTING PLACE: Avalon Cemetery, Soweto, South Africa
CHILDREN: Frances, Patricia
OCCUPATION: Politician
AWARDS: Suzman was awarded 27 honorary doctorates from universities around the world, including from Harvard, Yale, Oxford and Cambridge. She was twice nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize and received numerous other awards from religious and human rights organisations around the world…
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