Margaret Jean Roberts Legum (8 October 1933, Pretoria, South Africa – 1 November 2007, Cape Town, South Africa) was a South African/British anti-apartheid activist and social reformer, who specialized in economics.

Legum attended Rhodes University and Newnham College where she studied economics.^[1] Legum married Colin Legum in 1960 and they moved to London.^[1]

Margaret Legum died in 2007, aged 74, from cancer.^[2]

Legum was a founder of the South African New Economics Network.^[3] Her book, It Doesn't Have To Be Like This: Global Economics – A New Way Forward (2003), was written based on a series of lectures she gave at the University of Cape Town.^[4]

She was well known for a 1963 book on the necessity of economic sanctions against South Africa, South Africa: Crisis for the West, which she co-wrote with her husband, Colin.^[5]

• Margaret Legum's Last Journey (video)

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