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Only hint that a few South African whites were at all disturbed by apartheid came in the narrow victory of the Progressive Party's perky Mrs. Helen Suzman, who in the past five years has been the only voice of dissent in the South African Parliament. Supported by all major English-language papers and by gold-and-diamond Magnate Harry Oppenheimer, Mrs. Suzman carried her wealthy Johannesburg district by a bare 711 votes...
...relentless crusade against Verwoerd's government. In the elections of 1961, the Mail was the only big newspaper to pledge undiluted support to South Africa's new, anti-Verwoerd, Progressive Party. "Immensely heartening," said Gandar, after the Progressives succeeded in sending a single candidate, Mrs. Helen Suzman, to Parliament...
...language daily: "This report, read as it stands, will do more damage to South Africa's reputation overseas than 500 of the press messages which it condemns so vigorously." The only foe of apartheid in Parliament added what could serve handsomely as the last word. Said Mrs. Helen Suzman, member for the country's Progressive Party (TIME, April 17): "There is nothing more calculated than this report to make South Africa the laughingstock of the civilized world...
...Suzman, an anti-apartheid South African, said that Wits. University is a strong hold of opposition to the Nationalist government of Prime Minister Hendrik F. Verwoerd...
Wits. admitted Negroes until 1959, Suzman said, and stopped only when Parliament passed a law forbidding it. He emphasized that Wits. Would strongly prefer to have a nondiscriminatory admissions policy...