President Cyril Ramaphosa paid tribute to Frene Ginwala, first speaker of parliament in a democratic South Africa, at her memorial service on Tuesday. File photo.President Cyril Ramaphosa remembered the late first democratic speaker of the National Assembly Frene Ginwala as a pioneer, a pathfinder and a leader in the true sense of the word.
“Frene Ginwala played many parts. She was a journalist, an author, an academic, a barrister and a parliamentarian. She was an activist, a feminist, a pan-Africanist and an internationalist. It is telling that among her earlier political assignments she was called upon to find ways for ANC leaders to clandestinely leave the country. At a time of great uncertainty and danger, she established routes and identified means of passage where before there had been none. Through ingenuity, through courage, through determination and diligence, she forged new paths.
“On whatever platform, given whatever opportunity, Ginwala was an eloquent and persuasive champion of the cause of the South African people.
Will probably get worse. Like it or not, these issues will take a back seat to survival (of the party)