Margaret Legum
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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, survived by her three daughters and grandchildren.[2]
Work
Legum's 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 Capetown.[3]
She was well known 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.[4]
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.
- ^ Hudson, Marc (December 2005). "Margaret Legum, 'It doesn't have to be like this: Global economics - a new way forward'". Peace News. Retrieved 22 September 2016.
- ^ "Margaret Legum". The Scotsman. 7 November 2007. Retrieved 22 September 2016.
External links
- Margaret Legum's Last Journey (video)
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- Women economists
- Academics of the London School of Economics
- People from Pretoria
- South African educators
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- Deaths from cancer in South Africa
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