It was but then, when you're, one of the great poisonous events that have infected us all who were in South Africa is that the idea of difference is drip fed into your veins. It's that that you fight.

Her grandfather Max Sonnenberg was a member of the South African parliament and Janet Suzman is a niece of civil rights/anti-apartheid campaigner Helen Suzman. Later years
Back in her native South Africa Janet Suzman has directed Othello which was also televised and Brecht's The Good Woman of Setzuan (renamed The Good Woman of Sharpeville) both at the Market Theatre Johannesburg. This was followed by A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (1972) opposite Alan Bates.