Name: Anonymous 2009-01-08 0:14
http://www.stormfront.org/forum/showthread.php?t=557021
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Helen Suzman, DBE (born Helen Gavronsky 7 November 1917 – 1 January 2009) was a South African anti-apartheid activist and politician.
Helen Suzman was born on 7 November 1917 to Lithuanian-Jewish immigrants..... being elected to Parliament in 1953 as a member of the United Party. She switched to the liberal Progressive Party in 1959, and represented the Houghton constituency as that party's sole member of parliament, and the sole parliamentarian unequivocally opposed to apartheid, from 1961 to 1974.
Suzman was noted for her strong public criticism of the governing National Party's policies of apartheid at a time when this was untypical of white South Africans, and found herself even more of an outsider due to the fact that she was an English-speaking Jewish woman in a parliament dominated by Calvinist Afrikaner men. She was once accused by a minister of asking questions in parliament that embarrassed South Africa, to which she replied: "It is not my questions that embarrass South Africa; it is your answers"
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Helen Suzman, DBE (born Helen Gavronsky 7 November 1917 – 1 January 2009) was a South African anti-apartheid activist and politician.
Helen Suzman was born on 7 November 1917 to Lithuanian-Jewish immigrants..... being elected to Parliament in 1953 as a member of the United Party. She switched to the liberal Progressive Party in 1959, and represented the Houghton constituency as that party's sole member of parliament, and the sole parliamentarian unequivocally opposed to apartheid, from 1961 to 1974.
Suzman was noted for her strong public criticism of the governing National Party's policies of apartheid at a time when this was untypical of white South Africans, and found herself even more of an outsider due to the fact that she was an English-speaking Jewish woman in a parliament dominated by Calvinist Afrikaner men. She was once accused by a minister of asking questions in parliament that embarrassed South Africa, to which she replied: "It is not my questions that embarrass South Africa; it is your answers"