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	Helen Suzman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Helen Suzman was born Helen Gavronsky on 7th November 1917 in Germiston, South Africa as the daughter of Lithuanian-Jewish immigrants.
		She married Dr. Moses Suzman when she was 20, and had two daughters with him before returning to university as a lecturer in 1944.
		She gave up teaching for politics, being elected to Parliament in 1953 as a member of the United Party.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Helen_Suzman (271 words)

	Janet Suzman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Janet Suzman (born February 9, 1939) is a South African actress.
		Born in Johannesburg to a Jewish family, she is a niece of civil rights/anti-apartheid campaigner, Helen Suzman.
		Suzman tends to run towards classical works, performing in many productions of Shakespeare plays, and in such works as The Three Sisters and Hedda Gabler.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Janet_Suzman (213 words)

	Helen Suzman
		For many years Helen Suzman was the only opposition to the government on these issues; the formal opposition party colluding with the government in the name of fighting communism.
		Helen Suzman was the only representative willing to see disenfranchised fl South Africans as part of her constituency.
		Helen Suzman is currently active in the appeal of Mzwakhe Mbuli, a South African poet believed to have been framed by the police.
	www.interlog.com /~saww/2001Helen.html (551 words)

	South African apartheid foe Helen Suzman receives Ralston Prize (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Suzman, who insisted for quite a while that she could finish the speech, apologized to her audience of 300, saying she was suffering from "a very bad cold." She was released from the hospital after a night of observation.
		Suzman, who was a member of that parliament for 36 years and its only opponent of apartheid for 13, traced the factors that she believes led to the decline and end of apartheid from the early 1980s on.
		As for her own role, Suzman said that when fl resistance led to state declarations of emergency, "my value as a member of parliament was much enhanced because the press was unable to report what was going on." Journalists could report, however, what
	www.stanford.edu /dept/news/pr/96/960403suzman.html (443 words)

	South Africa's Helen Suzman, Conscience of a Troubled Land
		Suzman is the only national office-holder unalterably opposed to her country's notorious "apartheid" form of government.
		Suzman has, by invitation, conferred with heads of state in Europe, visited leaders of independent fl nations in Africa, and addressed Congressmen in the U.S. Most recently, Oxford University honored her as the South African politician "best known and most respected" overseas.
		Suzman, a former lecturer in econontic history at the University of the Witwatersrand, believes that internal economic pressures are the only effective weapons against apartheid.
	www.aliciapatterson.org /APF001973/Rensberger/Rensberger11/Rensberger11.html (1613 words)

	:: HELEN SUZMAN GARDEN UNVEILED :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Several years ago Keith Kirsten presented Suzman with three roses from which to chose one to be named after her: a dark red rose, a yellow rose, and a small pink rose.
		Suzman attended the Convent in 1924 and matriculated in 1933.
		Suzman vigorously opposed the pro-apartheid National Party in her 36 years in parliament, six of those as the only woman politician and 13 years as the only member of the Progressive Party which opposed apartheid.
	www.joburg.org.za /2003/may/may28_suzman.stm (562 words)

	Helen Suzman (2002) - Prize For Freedom - Politics - Liberal International
		Helen Suzman is no political demagogue, nor is she an armchair crusader.
		It was during her thirteen years from 1961 to 1974, when Helen Suzman was the lone representative of the liberal Progressive Party, that she faced the apartheid bullies head on.
		Helen Suzman played a significant role in helping South Africa to transform from apartheid to a democratic state.
	www.liberal-international.org /editorial.asp?ia_id=694 (513 words)

	Helen Suzman -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The daughter of Lithuanian Jewish immigrants, Suzman graduated (1940) from the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg with a degree in commerce.
		For the seven years from 1927 through 1933 and again in 1935 Helen Wills was the United States most outstanding female tennis player, and for 16 seasons she was one of the world's leading competitors in her sport.
		Helen Reddy's own popularity, however, seemed to parallel that of the cause she represented; her appeal waned as the fervor of feminism...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9070535 (659 words)

	Sunday Times - South Africa's best selling newspaper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Being the only Prog in Parliament Suzman had to spend as much time as she could in the House, participating in debates, asking the kind of questions no other MP was asking and generally trying to ensure that the government got away with as little as possible.
		Suzman forced the government to take her seriously because her slashing attacks on their policies were always based on hard facts.
		When Suzman went sailing into battle against the likes of Hendrik Verwoerd and John Vorster she often had to hope like hell that Beck had done her homework properly and that the facts she'd fed her were accurate.
	www.sundaytimes.co.za /2003/02/09/insight/in16.asp (875 words)

	Pioneering South African legislator to speak at Stanford (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Suzman is visiting the university at the invitation of Stanford Law School to receive the Jackson H. Ralston Prize in international law.
		Suzman has been called "a bridge between the fl and white communities," but some of her positions have been controversial, both in South Africa and around the world.
		Suzman gave up her parliamentary seat in 1989, just months before the South African government made the first moves to dismantle apartheid.
	www.stanford.edu /dept/news/relaged/960311suzman.html (451 words)

	Chapter Seventeen
		Helen Suzman, an anti-apartheid member of Parliament, was standing only a few yards away from the place where the knife-wielding page fatally stabbed the prime minister.
		Suzman is a Jewish-South African and like those of her nation in other Western lands, her political program runs at cross-purposes with Christians of European descent.
		Suzman was born Helen Gavronsky, the daughter of Jewish immigrants from Lithuania.
	www.mindspring.com /~dennisw/articles/nations/17.htm (1999 words)

	Telegraph \| News
		Helen Suzman, for years the lone anti-apartheid voice in the South African parliament, has turned her fire on the country's ANC government for being "anti-white" and for abandoning the country's poorest fls.
		Dressed in a blue blouse, trousers and matching jewellery, Mrs Suzman's tiny frame became powerfully animated as she discussed the subject of Zimbabwe and President Thabo Mbeki's failure to curb the excesses of his neighbour, President Robert Mugabe.
		Mrs Suzman was a lecturer in economic history before beginning her political career in 1953 as an MP for the United Party.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/05/16/wsuz16.xml (1005 words)

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		Suzman has, by invitation, conferred with heads of state in Europe, visited leaders of independent fl nations in Africa, and addressed Congressmen in the U.S. \par Most recently, Oxford University honored her as the South African politician "best known and most respected" overseas.
		Suzman replied coolly, "We are trying to stop you." \par It is a quixotic goal, for both Mr.
		Suzman said, "But of course all these stories are grist to the mill of the government because they build up a very useful war psychosis." \par Mrs.
	www.aliciapatterson.org /APF001973/Rensberger/Rensberger11/Rensberger11.rtf (1353 words)

	Helen Suzman: Beating Apartheid from Within (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Although Helen Suzman is not as well known as Mother Teresa, Mahatma Gandhi, or Nelson Mandela, she played a pivotal role in re-fashioning South Africa.
		Suzman and a few others who split from the United Party started the Progressive Party, which opposed race discrimination and lobbied for a non-racial franchise.
		She wanted it to be so clear that she was the only one standing against this law that she requested Parliament to physically “divide” – which meant that she stood alone on one side of the room against a roomful of Nationalist and United M.P.s who voted the bill into effect.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/african_history/92225 (452 words)

	Helen Suzman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Helen Suzman was born in Germiston in 1917.
		As a Member of Parliament she was able to visit prisons, amongst them Robben Island, and inspected the living conditions of prisoners.
		The Helen Suzman Foundation was been established to promote liberal democracy in South Africa.
	www.sahistory.org.za /pages/people/suzman-h.htm (223 words)

	:: Leave Jo'burg to live elsewhere? Never! :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Suzman was born in Germiston, and at the age of five moved to Johannesburg.
		Suzman vigorously opposed the National Party in her 36 years in parliament, six of those as the only woman MP and 13 years as the only representative of the anti-apartheid Progressive Party.
		In the 18 years that former president Nelson Mandela was imprisoned on Robben Island, she visited him frequently and fought for equality for the fl prisoners.
	www.joburg.org.za /october/suzman.stm (422 words)

	Suzman Expects DP To Fare Well In Poll (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Former liberal MP Helen Suzman on Thursday said she expected the Democratic Party to perform well in the June 2 poll, judging by recent by-election results.
		Many people were fed-up with unfulfilled pre-election promises and scant improvements in their quality of life, Suzman said at a function marking the 40th anniversary of the founding of the Progressive Party.
		Suzman, the Progressive Party's sole MP for 13 years, said DP MPs faced a far more hostile atmosphere today than she had in the House of Assembly, where 165 members had "maintained some degree of decorum.
	www.anc.org.za /elections/news/mar/en031211.html (198 words)

	FIN24 : Empowering Financial Decisions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The straight-talking octogenarian was speaking at a Helen Suzman Foundation function to mark the appointment of its new director, Prof Lawrence Schlemmer.
		Suzman also said that the electorate noticed the ANC leadership's "reckless expenditure" on overseas trips and conferences such as the one held on racism in Durban.
		She said the first democratic elections in 1994 had an 80% turn-out which was unlikely to be matched in the 2004 polls.
	www.fin24.co.za /articles/email_article.asp?articleid=2-7-12_1114521 (297 words)

	Manuscripts & Archives
		Helen Suzman at her first opening of Parliament in 1953 ("A cricket in the thorn tree, Helen Suzman and the Progressive Party" J Strangways-Booth)
		Helen Suzman with daughters Patricia and Francis 1953 ("A cricket in the thorn tree, Helen Suzman and the Progressive Party" J Strangways-Booth)
		Helen Suzman with former chancellor of the exchequer, Roy Jenkins after receiving her Honorary Doctorate at Oxford 1973.
	www.lib.uct.ac.za /mss/index.php?html=/mss/newaids/BC974.HTM&msscollid=282 (504 words)

	Democratic Alliance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Helen Suzman retired from Parliament in 1989, amid unequalled acclaim even from those whom she opposed for so long.
		In a witty, eloquent and combative style Helen Suzman deployed her exceptional skills in Parliament in defence of the powerless.
		She has seen the policies she espoused so forcefully and for so long adopted to a great extent by the Nationalist Party of FW de Klerk, who one must assume learnt much of his liberalism by her example.
	www.da.org.za /DA/Site/Eng/Shop/Product.asp?productID=4&categoryID=5 (253 words)

	Features
		Suzman is scheduled to speak at 8 p.m.
		Suzman, an opponent of Apartheid, is being criticized by a variety of student groups.
		The groups are angry over Suzman’s consistent approach to trade sanctions and divestment, her participation in the all-white South African parliament, and the Administration’s decision to invite her instead of a speaker who has more direct contact with the fl anti-Apartheid movement.
	www.wesleyan.edu /argus/oct0899/f3.html (941 words)

	Top Anti-Apartheid White Says SA Was Better Under It!
		In an interview with the Sunday Telegraph Helen Suzman has attacked the ANC government for being "anti-white" and for abandoning the poor.
		Suzman has cast an unexpected shadow over the ANC - declaring that parliamentary democracy was healthier under the apartheid regime.
		Suzman was a lecturer in economic history before beginning her political career in 1953 as an MP for the United Party.
	www.rense.com /general53/topantiapartheidwhite.htm (1118 words)

	Business Report - Six reasons why Suzman gets it wrong over the death penalty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		I have always admired Helen Suzman's courage, and the way she fought alone in parliament for years.
		Fifth: "The fate of the accused is at the whim of the individual judge, who may or may not be an abolitionist." This contradicts Suzman's own statements, earlier in her letter, applauding the Constitutional Court.
		I note Suzman quotes Mrs Hoernle on the death penalty being a relic of vindictive punishment.
	www.busrep.co.za /index.php?fSectionId=225&fArticleId=372491 (496 words)

	South African People's Poet fights on (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Suzman told reporters she had confidence that Mbuli was an innocent victim of a conspiracy because he had threatened to blow the whistle on drug trafficking officials.
		Suzman dismissed the notion that her interest in Mbuli was extraordinary, and said she has been visiting people in prison for 30 years; what she does for Mbuli is no different than what she has done for others.
		Suzman noted when Nelson Mandela was jailed in Robben Island under apartheid, she visited whenever she wanted, but under the rule of the ANC's President Thabo Mbeki, she had to make an appointment to visit Mzwakhe Mbuli.
	www.greenleft.org.au /back/2000/431/431p28.htm (935 words)

	10 Years Later, Blacks Make SA Hell On Earth--Statistics - Stormfront White Nationalist Community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The Helen Suzman Foundation, established in honour of its leading patron, Mrs Helen Suzman, has the aim of deepening democracy in South Africa by promoting principles of liberty, equality of opportunity and respect for the rights of all people, interest groups and minorities.
		Helen Suzman intervened on First’s behalf, at the request of several of First’s friends who knew she had tried to commit suicide while in prison.
		SA will go the way of Zimbabwe (duh), but don't worry Suzman, membership has it's privileges, and no doubt you won't be one of the whites caught with their necks in the noose.
	www.stormfront.org /forum/showthread.php?t=131657 (2341 words)

	Sunday Times - arts - 29 November 1998 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Helen was following in the steps of many famous women - Cleopatra, Lady Godiva, Zola Budd and Ingrid Bergman have all had roses named after them.
		Helen joked that Keith had told her her rose was "difficult to propagate, but hardy and worth waiting for".
		Helen was able to choose from six alternative specimens, and Colin's speech explained why her pretty namesake is pink, fading to white at the edges, while reminding guests that roses have thorns too.
	www.suntimes.co.za /1998/11/29/arts/ane12.htm (380 words)

	Cleburne News - Nobility in a latrine
		Though I never had the honor of meeting President Mandela, Helen is an old, admired friend who, at 87, is peppery as ever, scolding incumbent President Thabo Mbeki, and anyone who does not live up to her standards.
		Yet there is much to do and Helen hasn't finished chastising foolishness, such as investigation of private clubs by the Human Rights Commission, on which she once served.
		For Helen and Mandela, ignored by new leadership and a new generation, there is this benediction: only those who fought the war remember Veterans of past wars.
	www.annistonstar.com /opinion/2005/cn-column-0616-0-5f16j1930.htm (1003 words)

	Alumni Bulletin: Certificate Address
		Helen Suzman did more than shout aloud her condemnation of each new oppressive law.
		There was not much that Helen Suzman could do to stop the brutality of police interrogations.
		There was not much that Helen Suzman could do to stop the violence against families forced to separate, or to prevent people from being forced from their land.
	www.dce.harvard.edu /pubs/alum/1999/10.html (1965 words)

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