Helen Suzman, OMSG, DBE (née Gavronsky; 7 November 1917 – 1 January 2009) was a South African anti-apartheid activist and politician. She represented a...
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The Helen Suzman Foundation is an independent, non-partisan think tank in South Africa dedicated to promoting liberal democratic values and human rights...
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championed the rule of law. For 13 years, its only member of parliament was Helen Suzman. It was later renamed the Progressive Reform Party in 1975, and then...
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and her aunt was the civil rights and anti-apartheid campaigner Helen Suzman. Suzman was educated at the independent school Kingsmead College, Johannesburg...
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in 2017. He is the nephew of Janet Suzman and great-nephew of Helen Suzman. He is based in Cambridge, UK. Suzman was born in Johannesburg, South Africa...
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parliamentary performer. Its best known parliamentarian was however Helen Suzman, who was for many years the only member of the whites-only House of Assembly...
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played by a few key individuals in opposing apartheid – particularly Helen Suzman and Helen Zille. The campaign received a certain amount of media attention...
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resignation at the end of 2004. She later served stints as director of the Helen Suzman Foundation and as a member of the Electoral Commission of South Africa...
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(b. 1919) 2009 – Claiborne Pell, American politician (b. 1918) 2009 – Helen Suzman, South African anti-apartheid activist and politician (b. 1917) 2010...
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figure, Vorster was described as "flesh and blood" by Progressive MP Helen Suzman in contrast to the "diabolical" and "frightening" Verwoerd. His supporters...
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public sphere". Contributors to the print edition included Harold Bloom, Helen Suzman, Christopher Hitchens, Germaine Greer, Garry Kasparov, Robert Reich,...
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contains similar provisions. Helen Suzman used parliamentary privilege in her anti-apartheid campaigning. Helen Suzman reported during a 1994 interview...
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President, Botha's greatest parliamentary opponents were Harry Schwarz and Helen Suzman of the Progressive Federal Party until 1987, when his former cabinet...
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show's longest serving presenter at the time. A friend of Helen Suzman, via her niece Janet Suzman, MacGregor used her local knowledge in BBC broadcasts over...
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Gerhardus Strijdom, former prime minister Helen Suzman, politician Janet Suzman, actress (niece of Helen Suzman) Basil Rathbone, actor Candice Swanepoel...
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invalid and deleted by the Constitutional Court in November 2014 in the Helen Suzman Foundation v President of the Republic of South Africa and Others; Glenister...
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2023-02-05. Gumede, William (2002). "The young lions who miaow". Focus. 27. Helen Suzman Foundation. Retrieved 5 February 2023. "ANC affirms steadfast path of...
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Albertina Sisulu Walter Sisulu J. G. Strijdom Joe Slovo Robert Sobukwe Helen Suzman Adelaide Tambo Oliver Tambo Eugène Terre'Blanche Desmond Tutu H. F. Verwoerd...
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some 20 percent did not. Parliamentary opposition was galvanised by Helen Suzman, Colin Eglin and Harry Schwarz, who formed the Progressive Federal Party...
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the parliament. On the party's left wing, he and fellow MPs including Helen Suzman, Colin Eglin, Ray Swart, Harry Lawrence and Dr Jan Steytler resigned...
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2020. "Judgement in the matter of the Helen Suzman Foundation and the President of the Republic". Helen Suzman Foundation. 8 December 2014. Retrieved...
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formed the liberal Progressive Party. The parliamentary party is led by Helen Suzman 1975: The party merged with the Reform Party led by Harry Schwarz, a...
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The Progressive Party made a major advance, however. In addition to Helen Suzman, re-elected for Houghton, five other members won seats including the...
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activist (1944–2016) Harold Strachan, anti-apartheid activist (1925–2020) Helen Suzman, South African anti-apartheid activist and politician (1917–2009) Isaac...
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of Justice to publish the banned persons in the Government Gazette. Helen Suzman, a liberal member of the South African parliament, defended the right...
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Nowosenetz, Lawrence. "To the Helen Suzman Foundation of South Africa". blogs.timesofisrael.com. Retrieved 27 November 2024. "Helen Suzman". Jewish Women's Archive...
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Albertina Sisulu Walter Sisulu J. G. Strijdom Joe Slovo Robert Sobukwe Helen Suzman Adelaide Tambo Oliver Tambo Eugène Terre'Blanche Desmond Tutu H. F. Verwoerd...
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cape coloured Welsh, David (2005). "A hollowing-out of our democracy?". Helen Suzman Foundation. Archived from the original on 2011-07-25. Retrieved 2009-10-23...
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proposals were combined with advocacy of a free market economy. In 1961 only Helen Suzman was elected in parliament. For 13 years she was the only opponent of...
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