World | apartheid Anti-Apartheid Crusader Suzman Dead Was one of few white South African pols to denounce segregation By Kevin Spak Posted Jan 1, 2009 1:26 PM CST Copied Winnie Mandela, left, then-wife of the imprisoned Nelson Mandela, speaks with then Progressive Federal Party member Helen Suzman in Orlando West, Soweto, South Africa, in this 1986 file photo. (AP Photo/File) Anti-apartheid icon Helen Suzman has died peacefully in her Johannesburg home, her daughter announced today. She was 91. Suzman served in South Africa’s parliament at a time when few whites criticized apartheid, and for 13 years was the only legislator to publicly do so. She was twice nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts. “She really was indomitable,” said a South African archbishop; the Mandela foundation called her “a great patriot.” Read These Next Hegseth: Scouts no longer 'cultivate masculine values.' Tara Reid taken out of Chicago-area hotel on a stretcher. You may not be a 'professional' now under new US proposal. Man was planning cremation for his sister, who turned out to be alive. Report an error