Ginn was born and raised on farms in South Africa, she spent a childhood of freedom and horse riding with four brothers and caring parents in the Free State. With Black people as trusted servants. High School was largely at Helderberg College near Somerset West in the Western Cape, and a career in Physiotherapy followed at the University of Cape Town. A varied and interesting life followed with travels to Europe as a young practitioner, to find how physiotherapy was practiced there - particularly in the field of geriatrics.
In 1969 Ginn returned to South Africa and pioneered a new venture in provision of care for the Elderly at Tygerberg Service Centre in Parow, Western Cape - which included Physiotherapy and day care for lonely seniors. Whilst In the Cape she met and married Johann Fourie - Lyndi was born in 1970, and Anthony in 1972, after the family had relocated to Rhodesia. The family then spent four years in Michigan USA where Johann did a B Sc in Agriculture and Ginn practiced Physiotherapy - they then returned to SA to follow a farming career. Ginn set up private practice in physiotherapy until 1985 when the family returned to Somerset West and she returned to UCT to lecture, and at the same time completed an advanced diploma in teaching as well as a Masters degree in Traumatic Orthopaedics. A great time was spent with the enthusiasm of students and clinical teaching at Grootte Schuur Hospital for 18 years. Lyndi was killed at the Heidelberg tavern massacre in 1993 which catapulted Ginn into a different direction of study for a Doctorate on Forgiveness and Conciliation in South Africa.
In 2002 Ginn met Letlapa Mphahlele, who was the Apla (Azanian Peoples Liberation Army) director of operations who gave the order for the attack on the Heidelberg. The result was the discovery of a man who is intent on finding peace and empowerment for his people - a challenge in the current S Africa. In 2003 Ginn took early retirement in order to develop the Lyndi Fourie Foundation with Letlapa as co-founder.
