The death, today, of Helen Suzman is sad. That said, she was 91 years of age. Winner of a UN Award for Human Rights, she was literally a light in the darkness which beset South Africa during the apartheid regime which prevailed there for so many years.
South Africa's news24.com reports:
"During her parliamentary career she was hailed as apartheid's most effective parliamentary critic and a thorn in the flesh of the NP government.
This earned her the accolade "cricket in the thorn tree".
It was a role she played even after leaving formal politics, describing former state president PW Botha as a "bad-tempered, irate debater and a bully", after his death at the age of 90 in October 2006.
They had never had an amiable relationship, she told the media of her relationship with the man who accused her of complicity in the assassination of former prime minister Dr Hendrik Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid."
Read the full report, here, of a remarkable woman.
South Africa's news24.com reports:
"During her parliamentary career she was hailed as apartheid's most effective parliamentary critic and a thorn in the flesh of the NP government.
This earned her the accolade "cricket in the thorn tree".
It was a role she played even after leaving formal politics, describing former state president PW Botha as a "bad-tempered, irate debater and a bully", after his death at the age of 90 in October 2006.
They had never had an amiable relationship, she told the media of her relationship with the man who accused her of complicity in the assassination of former prime minister Dr Hendrik Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid."
Read the full report, here, of a remarkable woman.
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