Word: suzman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Suzman spent several weeks in Quincy House earlier this month as the guest of the University. This is the only interview she granted durher stay in the United States...
...Helen Suzman is the only member of the South African Parliament who has consistently opposed the government's apartheid policies. After 15 years in Parliament, she has amassed an impressive record of runins with the Afrikaners and remains the only visible liberal hold-out against one of the world's most reactionary regimes...
Visiting her daughter in Cambridge last week, Mrs. Suzman looked back on her lonely struggle against apartheid...
...first formulated her own conclusions about the government's apartheid policies when she lectured on economic development at Witwatersrand University. Making a study of the benefits of using non-white labor for professional jobs, Mrs. Suzman concluded that the recognition of South Africa as a multi-racial society was a necessity for the future development of the country's modern industry...
...Suzman entered Parliament in 1953 after winning an uncontested seat as a member of the United Party--the official opposition to the government's Nationalist Party. During the following six years, she became increasingly disenchanted with her party's "opposition" to the blossoming racist regime. After attempting reform from within, Mrs. Suzman and 12 of her colleagues broke from the UP in 1959 and formed the Progressive Party. The subsequent elections in '61 were a disaster for the Progressive Party: only Mrs. Suzman survived, and since then she has remained the sole voice against apartheid...