Dr mamphela ramphele biography of williams
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Nelson Mandela said that “education is the key to everything.”
It is a view shared by a woman who played an important part in his struggles and is keen now for Africa to build on his legacy. Dr Mamphela Ramphele is, without doubt, one of Africa’s most inspirational and successful women. She has a range and breadth of experience that is quite astonishing. A medical doctor, an academic and a businesswoman, she is also the former leader of South Africa’s Agang SA political party and the former partner of the great anti-apartheid campaigner Steve Biko, with whom she founded the Black Consciousness movement. As though that were not more than enough for one life, she just happens also to have served as the Vice Chancellor of the University of Cape Town and as a Managing Director of the World Bank.
She will top the bill at this year’s eLearning Africa conference in Kigali, Rwanda, heading an exciting list of keynote speakers in a fascinating programme of discussions, workshops an
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Mamphela Ramphele
South African activist and politician (born 1947)
Mamphela Aletta Ramphele (;[1][2] born 28 December 1947) is a South African politician, anti-apartheid activist, medical doctor and businesswoman. She was a partner of anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko, with whom she had two children. She is a former vice-chancellor at the University of Cape Town and a former managing director at the World Bank.[4] Ramphele founded the political party Agang South Africa in February 2013 but withdrew from politics in July 2014. Since 2018, she has been the co-president of the Club of Rome.
Early life
[edit]Ramphele, a Mopedi, was born in the Bochum District in Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo).[5] She completed her schooling at Setotolwane High School in 1966 and subsequently enrolled for pre-medical courses at the University of the North. Her mother, Rangoato Rahab, and her father, Pitsi Eliphaz Ramphele were primary school teachers
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Ramphele, Mamphela (1947—)
South African doctor, anthropologist, educator, and activist. Born on månad 28, 1947, near Pietersburg, South Africa; parents were rural schoolteachers; entered medical school in 1968 and qualified in medicine at the University of Natal in 1972; Ph.D. in social antropologi, University of Cape Town, 1991; BCom. degree in administration, University of South Africa; married and divorced; children: sons Hlumelo and Malusi.
Born to rural schoolteachers in the northern Transvaal, South Africa, in 1947, Mamphela Ramphele determined to become a doctor while growing up under apartheid. In 1968, she entered medical school at the University of Natal, where she became one of the group of political activists associated with Mapetla Mohapi and Steven Biko, who was also a medical lärjunge, and joined Biko's Black Consciousness Movement. As well as colleagues, they also became lovers. She qualified in medicin in 1972, and three years later founded the Zanempilo