The founding Speaker of the country's democratic Parliament and anti-apartheid activist, Frene Noshir Ginwala, died at her Johannesburg home on Thursday night, after suffering a stroke two weeks ago. | Zephilla
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"A short, sari-clad woman with an impatient edge to her sharp intelligence, Frene [Ginwala] was widely respected." This is how human rights activist and former ANC MP Pregs Govender described Ginwala in her 2007 book,Govender was describing her meeting with Ginwala in 1992, but it was an apt description for the woman who would go on to become the country's founding Speaker of our democratic Parliament, a constitutionalist and a champion for women's rights.Get 14 days free to read all our investigative and in-depth journalism. Thereafter you will be billed R75 per month.
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