Helen Suzman
Helen Suzman, OMSG, DBE was a South African anti-apartheid activist and politician. She represented a series 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 apartheid.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Germiston
- Educated at
- University of the Witwatersrand
- Awards
- 🏆 United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights🏆 Moses-Mendelssohn-Preis🏆 Order for Meritorious Service🏆 Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire🏆 honorary doctor of Brandeis University
Trending & Selected Quotes
Trending topics shown first"he prime minister has been trying to bully me for twenty-eight years and he has not succeeded yet. I am not frightened of you. I never have been and I never will be. I think nothing of you."
"Every Nationalist MP should go to at least one funeral for unrest victims heavily disguised as human beings, instead of sitting on their green benches in parliament, insulated like fish in an aquarium…"
"It is not my questions that embarrass South Africa; it is your answers."
"I do not know why we equate—and with such examples before us—a white skin with civilisation."
"You say your people brought the Bible over the mountains and ask what mine did. They wrote it, my dear."
"For all my criticisms of the current system, it doesn't mean that I would like to return to the old one. I don't think we will ever go the way of Zimbabwe, but people are entitled to be concerned. I a…"
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Timeline
1917
Born
Birth2009
Died
Death
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