Anti-apartheid activist Frene Ginwala, the speaker of South Africa’s first democratic elected parliament — and the first woman to hold the office — has died aged 90, the country’s presidency said on Friday.
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Her life was changed by the 1960 Sharpeville massacre, when police killed 69 demonstrators protesting against the “pass” laws, a pillar of white minority rule. In the 1970s, she became a prominent figure in the international media, travelling around the world to muster support for the anti-apartheid movement and draw attention to abuses.
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