JOHANNESBURG, Jan 1: Leading South African anti-apartheid activist Helen Suzman, who for years was the sole white lawmaker opposed to minority rule, died on Thursday at the age of 91, the SAPA news agency said quoting her daughter.

Suzman, who served as a lone voice of parliamentary dissent during apartheid and served in the legislature between 1953 and 1989, died at her home in Johannesburg in the morning, her daughter Frances Jowell said.—AFP