Margaret Legum
Margaret Jean Roberts Legum | |
|---|---|
| Born | 8 October 1933 Pretoria, South Africa |
| Died | 1 November 200 Cape Town |
| Alma mater | Rhodes University Newnham College |
| Occupation | Activist Social reformer |
| Spouse | Colin Legum |
| Children | 3 |
Margaret Jean Roberts Legum (8 October 1933, Pretoria, South Africa – 1 November 2007, Cape Town, South Africa) was a South African/British anti-apartheid activist and social reformer, who specialized in economics.
Legum attended Rhodes University and Newnham College where she studied economics.[1] Legum married Colin Legum in 1960 and they moved to London.[1]
Margaret Legum died in 2007, aged 74, from cancer.[2]
Works
Legum was a founder of the South African New Economics Network.[3] Her book, It Doesn't Have To Be Like This: Global Economics – A New Way Forward (2003), was written based on a series of lectures she gave at the University of Cape Town.[4]
She was well known for a 1963 book on the necessity of economic sanctions against South Africa, South Africa: Crisis for the West, which she co-wrote with her husband, Colin.[5]
References
- ^ a b Herbstein, Denis (16 November 2007). "Margaret Legum". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 September 2016.
- ^ Kharsany, Zahira (2 November 2007). "Journalist Margaret Legum Passes Away". Mail & Guardian. Retrieved 22 September 2016.
- ^ Ingram, Derek. "Legum, Colin". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/90045. (Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Hudson, Marc (December 2005). "Margaret Legum, 'It doesn't have to be like this: Global economics – a new way forward'". Peace News. Archived from the original on 12 October 2016. Retrieved 22 September 2016.
- ^ "Margaret Legum". The Scotsman. 7 November 2007. Retrieved 22 September 2016.
External links
- Margaret Legum's Last Journey (video)