In No Uncertain Terms: A South African Memoir

Helen Suzman

1993

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This text includes mention of physical and legal violence against people of color as well as antisemitic slurs; these were actions that the author campaigned against. It provides insight into Jewish history; however, The Posen Library does not condone or promote hate speech or oppression of any kind.

Fighting for the Rule of Law

During my first few years as the lone Prog M. P., I found myself confronted by a series of vicious laws designed to undermine civil rights and to intensify discrimination against blacks. In pursuit of Verwoerd’s mad dream of Grand Apartheid, the government introduced one law after the other extending discriminatory…

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Creator Bio

Helen Suzman

1917–2009

Born in South Africa to Lithuanian parents, Helen Suzman taught economics at Witwatersrand University and then became a member of the South African parliament. Campaigning for a peaceful overthrow of the apartheid regime, Suzman received the United Nations Human Rights award in 1978.

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