Margaret
is known for her globally influential book published
in 1963 on the necessity of economic sanctions
against South Africa - South Africa: Crisis for
the West - which she wrote in partnership with
her husband Colin Legum.
Margaret
Legum and her husband were banned by the apartheid
government of South Africa in 1962. Holding dual
nationality, she settled in Great Britain and
was soon in demand as a broadcaster, journalist,
and trainer for radical activists. Margaret had
a long career as a key member of the Iona Community,
the radical ecumenical movement based on the island
of Iona.
Margaret
worked as a lecturer at the London School of Economics,
as she had back at Rhodes University. She was
the founder of the South African Centre for Anti-Racism
and Sexism (CARAS) as well as the British agency,
PACE (Preparation for Adaptation to Changing Environments).
Her first degree, in economics, was from Rhodes
University, and to this she added a Master's degree
in economics from Cambridge University in the
UK and then a third degree from Rhodes University.
Margaret Legum's latter days were spent in South
Africa, where she campaigned tirelessly for a
system of economic organisation that would reduce
developing nations' dependence on world markets,
writing, ""I am outraged at our [South
African] appalling poverty in the midst of unbelievable
wealth and potential of plenty for everyone. It
is based on our dependency on world economic factors
over which we have no control".
Colin
and Margaret Legum have three daughters: Kate,
Liz, and Jo.
Margaret was widowed in 2003.
Margaret
Legum died in 2007, aged 74, from cancer. She
is survived by her three daughters and grandchildren.
Books
by Margeret Legum
South
Africa: crisis for the West?
Colin Legum, Margaret Roberts Legum - History
- 1964
Against
all reason: Britain and South Africa in the eighties?
Margaret Roberts Legum - Political Science - 1981
It
doesn't have to be like this!: a new economy for
South Africa and the world?
Margaret Roberts Legum - Business & Economics
- 2002
It
doesn't have to be like this: global economics
: a new way forward?
Margaret Roberts Legum - Political Science - 2003
Occasional
Papers
WHY
NEW ECONOMICS? What Went Wrong
GLOBALISATION.
How it Works Now and How it Could Work
ALTERNATIVE
FORMS OF TAXATION
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