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]
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]