The Nelson Mandela Foundation has known as the late African National Congress (ANC) stalwart, Dr Frene Ginwala a particular one who was a part of the founding board of trustees for the inspiration.
The Foundation’s CEO, Sello Hatang has prolonged condolences- following the passing of the founding Speaker of South Africa’s first democratic Parliament. Ginwala handed away at her at house on Thursday evening on the age of 90 after struggling a stroke two weeks in the past.
Hatang provides that she was a type of individuals who have been founding trustees of the Foundation. He recollects talking to Ginwala’s colleagues and recollects them saying she was one among “those strict voices”.
“She didn’t ever mince her words about what needed to be done, in terms of good governance and ensuring that the institution is run well. I think if we are to do anything as a country- is to take this moment, and reflect on that legacy, and ask ourselves are we doing enough to ensure that we make that legacy live on- and continue to live beyond all of us, and beyond her lifetime.” He says.
Reflecting on Dr Frene Ginwala’s legacy: Sello Hatang:
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President Cyril Ramaphosa earlier described Ginwala as a a formidable patriot and chief of our nation.
The Presidency in an announcement says, “On behalf of the nation and of the legislative, executive and judicial components of the State, the President offers his sincere condolences to Dr Ginwala’s family, her nephews Cyrus, Sohrab and Zavareh,and their families.”
“The President extends his condolences to Dr. Ginwala’s friends, colleagues and associates in South Africa and beyond.”
President Ramaphosa additional provides, “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.”
“Among the many roles she adopted in the course of a life she led to the full, we are duty-bound to recall her establishment of our democratic Parliament which exercised the task of undoing decades-old apartheid legislation and fashioning the legislative foundations of the free and democratic South Africa.”
In 2005, she was honoured with the Order of Luthuli in Silver for her wonderful contribution to the wrestle in opposition to gender oppression and her tireless contribution to the wrestle for a non-sexist, non-racial, simply and democratic South Africa.
A take a look at Ginwala’s political life submit-1994:
