President Cyril Ramaphosa has declared seven days of mourning in honor of the late President of the National Assembly, Dr. Frene Ginwala.
The mourning period begins on Tuesday and will be followed by a national tribute in Johannesburg next Tuesday.
“President Ramaphosa has directed that the national flag be flown at half-mast at all flag stations across the country until the evening of Tuesday, January 24, 2023,” Presidential spokesman Vincent Magwenya said on Monday.
Ginwala died at his Cape Town home last Thursday after a stroke two weeks earlier. She was 90.
He served in the National Assembly from 1994 until his retirement in 2004.
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In 2005, she was honored with the Order of Luthuli in Silver for her fight against gender oppression and racial segregation.
She was cremated in a private ceremony over the weekend.
ANC Secretary General Fikile Mbalula told reporters outside her Sandton home last week that the ruling party will hold a series of programs in honor of Ginwala.
“It was a life well lived that should be celebrated. There is much that we, the current generation at the helm of the movement, can learn from the life and times of Comrade Frene,” Mbalula said.
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