Margaret Legum Explained

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.

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]

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Notes and References

  1. News: Margaret Legum. Herbstein. Denis. 16 November 2007. The Guardian. 22 September 2016.
  2. News: Journalist Margaret Legum Passes Away. Kharsany. Zahira. 2 November 2007. Mail & Guardian. 22 September 2016.
  3. 90045. Derek. Ingram. Legum, Colin.
  4. News: Margaret Legum, 'It doesn't have to be like this: Global economics - a new way forward'. Hudson. Marc. December 2005. Peace News. 22 September 2016.
  5. News: Margaret Legum. 7 November 2007. The Scotsman. 22 September 2016.