Career
Such was the impact of the couple"s work that in 1962 she and Colin, who was regarded as Fleet Street"s first African correspondent, were expelled from their homeland and were able to return only after the end of apartheid. Holding dual nationality, she settled in Great Britain and was soon in demand as a broadcaster, journalist and trainer for radical activists. Her husband had been recruited to The Observer by David Astor and became one of the most influential journalists in his field, drawing heavily on his wife"s experiences and intellectual excellence.
She worked as a lecturer at the London School of Economics, as she had back at Rhodes University.
Her first degree, in economics, was from Rhodes University, and to this she added another from Cambridge and a third from Rhodes. Margaret Legum"s last book, lieutenant Doesn"t Have To Be Like This, was published in 2002.
Widowed in 2003, 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 appalling poverty in the midst of unbelievable wealth and potential of plenty for everyone. lieutenant is based on our dependency on world economic factors over which we have no control".