Benson, Mary

Benson, Mary
▪ 2001

      South African writer and antiapartheid activist (b. Dec. 8, 1919, Pretoria, S.Af.—d. June 20, 2000, London, Eng.), rejected her privileged upbringing as a white in South Africa to campaign against her country's racial policies. She was a cofounder and secretary (1952–56) of the London-based antiapartheid Africa Bureau and secretary (1957) of the defense fund set up for Nelson Mandela and others. Benson, who lived in voluntary exile in London from the mid-1960s, was also the author of a history of the African National Congress, the authorized biography Nelson Mandela (1986), and a candid autobiography, A Far Cry: The Making of a South African (1989).

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