Helen Suzman, Nelson Mandela

** FILE ** In this Feb. 26, 1990 file photo veteran anti-apartheid activist Helen Suzman, right, holds hands with Nelson Mandela, when Suzman visited Mandela at his Soweto, South Africa, home. The Nelson Mandela Foundation said Thursday, Jan. 1, 2009, that South African anti-apartheid activist Helen Suzman has died. She was 91. Foundation chief executive Achmat Dangor says Suzman was a “great patriot and a fearless fighter against apartheid.” The cause of death was not immediately available Thursday. Suzman, who was white, was one of the few lawmakers who protested against white racist rule. She visited Mandela, the head of the then banned African National Congress, in prison in 1967 and became well-known for her campaigns against the injustices of apartheid. (AP Photo/John Parkin/file)