South African Journalist Margaret Legum passes away

Margaret Legum, best known for her call to sanction apartheid South Africa, died in Cape Town at the age of 74 on November 1. She died of complications arising from a cancer-related operation. She leaves behind two sisters, three daughters, five granddaughters and one grandson. She was widowed in 2003.Legum, who studied economics at Rhodes University and Cambridge, was a major advocate of social justice in South Africa. She lectured and worked as a journalist, often writing for the Mail & Guardian while residing in Kalk Bay in Cape Town.