Word: suzman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Toit continues to seek justice on their behalf, he is himself victimized by state terror that is the more frightening because of the bland face with which it covers its institutionalized psychopathy. Du Toit is subjected to steadily escalating harassment. Eventually he loses his job and his wife (Janet Suzman in a good, dour performance), and he must deal with the fact that his daughter is willing to betray him to the police...
...crash in Sioux City, Iowa, and is writing the Milestones section for this issue. Karla Bruner, a University of Missouri at Columbia graduate, has researched stories ranging from Cuba and Argentina to Burma and Greece for our World section. As managing editor of the Harvard International Review, Mark Suzman has come in contact with public figures like Jacques Delors, president of the European Commission. Now Suzman is broadening his experience on our International editions, where he has worked on an article about Gorbachev's trip to West Germany...
Great white liberals have always been a rare species in South Africa. Their ranks, diminished by the death of author Alan Paton at 85 a year ago, are about to be thinned again. After 36 years of combat against the forces of apartheid in Parliament, Helen Suzman, 71, announced last week that she will not seek re-election in September...
...years Suzman, a former university lecturer in economic history, was the only liberal opposition member of the house, making her the Progressive Party's spokeswoman. She slashed at purveyors of apartheid, once advising government ministers that they could learn something about their country if they would attend a funeral in a black township, "heavily disguised, of course, as human beings." But she opposed foreign economic sanctions against South Africa, arguing that they hurt blacks and drive whites into a siege mentality...
...Suzman's retirement will take some steam out of the new Democratic Party, formed last month by the merger of three liberal parties and still unable to agree on a leader. Liberalism has a future in South Africa, says Suzman, but "fundamental changes will take a lot longer than most people think...