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Helen Suzman, Anti-Apartheid Leader, Dies at 91

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

"She was also remembered for efforts to ease p[prison conditions for Mr. Mandela and other political captives, ensuring that they were able to receive books." January 2, 2009 Helen Suzman, Anti-Apartheid Leader, Dies at 91 By ALAN COWELL and CELIA W. DUGGER NY Times Helen Suzman, the internationally known anti-apartheid campaigner who befriended the imprisoned Nelson Mandela and offered an often lonely voice for change among South Africa?s white minority, died on Thursday, a family member said.. She was 91. Her son-in-law, Jeffrey Jowell, said she died peacefully in her Johannesburg home after a brief illness. He did not specify the cause of death.Mrs. Suzman was for many years among the most venerated of white campaigners urging an end to the injustices of racial rule...continue to full post

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