Dr Frene Ginwala’s memorial service is held at the Johannesburg City Hall on Tuesday. The National Assembly’s founding speaker passed away earlier this month at the age of 90.
Ginwala – who was born on 25 April 1932 – served the anti-apartheid struggle in a diversity of roles as a lawyer, academic, political leader, activist and journalist.
Dr Frene Ginwala’s memorial service
Dr Ginwala’s family and friends will pay tribute on Tuesday, and President Cyril Ramaphosa will deliver the eulogy at the Official Memorial Service.
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When she passed, President Ramaphosa extended his condolences to Dr Ginwala’s friends, colleagues and associates in South Africa and beyond.
“Today we mourn the passing of a formidable patriot and leader of our nation, and an internationalist to whom justice and democracy around the globe remained an impassioned objective to her last days”.
He said she adopted many roles “in the course of a life she led to the full”. He added: “We are duty-bound to recall her establishment of our democratic Parliament”.
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