President Cyril Ramaphosa has declared a seven-day mourning period from Tuesday in honour of Frene Ginwala, the founding speaker of the country’s democratic parliament.
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Frene Ginwala was an inspired choice for that first post-apartheid Parliament. It had to bring together public representatives from very diverse political backgrounds and knit them together to carry out the immense task of shaping the new democracy that was South Africa, writes Naledi Pandor.