Gang sa mamphela ramphele biography

          Agang South Africa (Agang SA) is a South African political party, first announced by anti-apartheid activist Mamphela Ramphele on 18 February , and founded..

          Dr Mamphela Aletta Ramphele

          Mamphela Ramphele was born on 28 December 1947 in Bochum District, Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo).

          She was a founder of the Black Consciousness Movement and the mother of two children by Steve Biko, a liberation icon and martyr.

        1. Mamphela Ramphele has said herself that she is no messiah.
        2. Agang South Africa (Agang SA) is a South African political party, first announced by anti-apartheid activist Mamphela Ramphele on 18 February , and founded.
        3. Agang SA, South African political party founded in by Mamphela Ramphele, a noted activist, physician, educator, and businesswoman.
        4. Mamphela Ramphele has kept away from political office, but she has remedies for the problems besetting South Africa's ANC.

          5. Her mother, Rangoato Rahab, and her father, Pitsi Eliphaz Ramphele were primary school teachers. In 1944, her father was promoted as headmaster of Stephanus Hofmeyr School. Ramphele contracted severe whooping cough at the age of three months.

          The wife of the local reverend, Dominee Lukas van der Merwe, gave her mother medical advice and bought medicines for the sick child that saved her life.

          In 1955, Ramphele witnessed a conflict between a racist Dominee (Reverend) and the people of the village of Kranspoort that also contributed to her political awakening.

          The dispute centred on whether the mother of a villager could be buried in the mission graveyard.  The Dominee refused to allow the burial since he considered the woman to be a heathen who had not converted to Christianity.  In defiance, local villagers took control of the church grounds