Helen Suzman, longtime stalwart of the Progressive Party and its various iterations (the Progressive Reform Party, the Progressive Federal Party), passed away on Thursday at the age of 91. Suzman was a long-time thorn in the side of the National Party, and if the Progressives’ anti-Apartheid bona fides have sometimes been overstated, her commitment to changing what she recognized as a noxious regime made her a legitimate and important voice for change during an era when the opposition was steadily circumscribed and battered. Go well, Ms. Suzman. South Africa has lost one of its beacons of light from the country's darkest era.
[Helen Suzman, via Truthout]
