Tanzania, Jan. 15 -- Arusha. Memories may have faded but Dr Frene Ginwala, who breathed her last on Thursday, will still be remembered in Tanzania.

She was one of the anti-apartheid activists who set camp in Tanzania in the early 1960s alongside other liberation struggle leaders.

With the coming of majority rule in 1994, she went back home, where she was elected speaker of South Africa's first democratically elected parliament.

A South African of Indian descent, Dr Ginwala studied law in Britain in the late 1950s, earning her the title of a 'constitution expert.'

She went back home (South Africa) but her life was to change dramatically, ostensibly due to racial segregation against the majority.

It was precisely the Sharpeville massac...