A Hero Passes:

Helen Suzman, for years the sole voice of justice in South Africa's all white government, died at the age of 91. Her anti-apartheid voice helped keep the ground loose under the racist structure of that government for more than twenty years as she spoke truth to power both within her own country and wherever she could around the world. "When a government minister once accused her of embarrassing South Africa with her parliamentary questions, she replied, 'It is not my questions that embarrass South Africa; it is your answers'” (Celia W. Dugger, The New York Times).