Loyalist
01-02-2009, 01:25 AM
Helen Suzman, a celebrated South African MP and anti-apartheid campaigner, has died at the age of 91.
Mrs Suzman, a member of parliament first for the opposition United Party and later the Progressive Party, was an outspoken critic of apartheid.
For 13 years, Mrs Suzman, the daughter of Jewish Lithuanian immigrants, was the only MP to openly condemn South Africa's whites-only apartheid regime.
She was made an honorary dame by the Queen in 1989. She was also twice-nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
The family plans to follow a private funeral this weekend with a public memorial in February, the SAPA news agency reported.
The former MP, who had been in a frail condition recently, died at her home in Johannesburg early on Thursday.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu said his country owed her an enormous debt in the struggle against apartheid.
"She really was indomitable," he said.
Nelson Mandela Foundation chief executive Achmat Dangor told the Associated Press news agency that she was a "great patriot and a fearless fighter against apartheid".
Mrs Suzman, who first entered the South African parliament in 1953, was a thorn in the side of the apartheid regime, says the BBC's Peter Biles, in Johannesburg.
She was a frequent visitor of jailed African National Congress (ANC) leader Nelson Mandela when he was held on Robben Island prison for 18 years.
Mr Mandela wrote of her in his biography: "It was an odd and wonderful sight to see this courageous woman peering into our cells and strolling around our courtyard. She was the first and only woman ever to grace our cells."
Source (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7807070.stm)
The Progressive Reform Party this woman belonged to worked to dismantle Apartheid from the inside out. In typical Jewish fashion, Suzman and her associates exported their race's penchant for communist, anti-European values from one land to the next. A quick search will reveal the vast majority of "white" anti-Apartheid activists were Jews, despite the fact that they constitute such a small percentage of the population. The racial question in South Africa is the concern of no-one except the people who have roots in the land. It was not the place of Helen Suzman, Harry Schwarz, Lionel Bernstein, or any other Semitic import to interfere, and thus bring about the most tragic of consequences for both white and black citizens. While the media pays homage to this woman, they simultaneously ignore the fact that, literally overnight, the nation went on a downward spiral into poverty, unemployment, inflation, violence, criminality, and corruption, thanks to the very policies she dedicated her life to enforcing.
Mrs Suzman, a member of parliament first for the opposition United Party and later the Progressive Party, was an outspoken critic of apartheid.
For 13 years, Mrs Suzman, the daughter of Jewish Lithuanian immigrants, was the only MP to openly condemn South Africa's whites-only apartheid regime.
She was made an honorary dame by the Queen in 1989. She was also twice-nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
The family plans to follow a private funeral this weekend with a public memorial in February, the SAPA news agency reported.
The former MP, who had been in a frail condition recently, died at her home in Johannesburg early on Thursday.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu said his country owed her an enormous debt in the struggle against apartheid.
"She really was indomitable," he said.
Nelson Mandela Foundation chief executive Achmat Dangor told the Associated Press news agency that she was a "great patriot and a fearless fighter against apartheid".
Mrs Suzman, who first entered the South African parliament in 1953, was a thorn in the side of the apartheid regime, says the BBC's Peter Biles, in Johannesburg.
She was a frequent visitor of jailed African National Congress (ANC) leader Nelson Mandela when he was held on Robben Island prison for 18 years.
Mr Mandela wrote of her in his biography: "It was an odd and wonderful sight to see this courageous woman peering into our cells and strolling around our courtyard. She was the first and only woman ever to grace our cells."
Source (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7807070.stm)
The Progressive Reform Party this woman belonged to worked to dismantle Apartheid from the inside out. In typical Jewish fashion, Suzman and her associates exported their race's penchant for communist, anti-European values from one land to the next. A quick search will reveal the vast majority of "white" anti-Apartheid activists were Jews, despite the fact that they constitute such a small percentage of the population. The racial question in South Africa is the concern of no-one except the people who have roots in the land. It was not the place of Helen Suzman, Harry Schwarz, Lionel Bernstein, or any other Semitic import to interfere, and thus bring about the most tragic of consequences for both white and black citizens. While the media pays homage to this woman, they simultaneously ignore the fact that, literally overnight, the nation went on a downward spiral into poverty, unemployment, inflation, violence, criminality, and corruption, thanks to the very policies she dedicated her life to enforcing.