Margaret Legum

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]

  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.