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]

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

  1. ^ a b Herbstein, Denis (16 November 2007). "Margaret Legum". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 September 2016.
  2. ^ Kharsany, Zahira (2 November 2007). "Journalist Margaret Legum Passes Away". Mail & Guardian. Retrieved 22 September 2016.
  3. ^ Ingram, Derek. "Legum, Colin". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/90045. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ "Margaret Legum". The Scotsman. 7 November 2007. Retrieved 22 September 2016.

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