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...English didn't realize that government was the biggest business in the country," says Helen Suzman, with a touch of exaggeration and a touch of bitterness. Now entering her 34th year as an opposition M.P. (for some of that time the only one), she is among the leaders of the English-speaking minority. Other well-known members tend to pursue different lines of work: Golfer Gary Player, Novelist Nadine Gordimer, Dancer Juliet Prowse, Tennis Player Kevin Curren. "And then the English were just outnumbered by the Afrikaners," Suzman adds, "especially in the civil service...
...Mandela, the black nationalist leader who has been imprisoned since 1962, and Oliver Tambo, the exiled head of the outlawed African National Congress. Nobel-prizewinning Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu runs a close third. Even some whites received approving nods, from the opposition politicians Frederik van Zyl Slabbert and Helen Suzman to Communist Party Chief Joe Slovo, the sole white member of the ANC executive committee. But most surprising of all, State President P.W. Botha turned up in 14th place...
Despite that failure, many South Africans and foreign observers regard Mandela as the only person who can prevent a race war in his country. "This man is the last hope for a negotiated solution between blacks and whites," says Helen Suzman, the strongest antiapartheid voice in white South Africa...
...personal question. Yes, even in the event that sanctions do work, however unlikely that may be, and when ultimately a Black government does (as it inevitably will) come into power, will the West guarantee to reinvest the money it has withdrawn and restimulate a dying economy? Mark Suzman...
...current state of emergency was declared on June 12. Some critics claimed that the real number of detainees was closer to 12,000, but the official figure was high enough to prompt an outcry from the small parliamentary opposition. The list, declared the Progressive Federal Party's Helen Suzman, was a "terrifying indictment of the government's inability to maintain law-and-order...