Mamphela ramphele biography of william
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Things you may not know about Mamphela Ramphele
We all know Mamphela Ramphele as the leader of Agang SA but what else do we know about her?
1) Mamphela Aletta Ramphele was born on 28 December in the Bochum District in Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo)
2) Her mother is Rangoato Rahab, and her father is Pitsi Eliphaz Ramphele who were primary school teachers.
3) Ramphele contracted severe whooping cough at the age of three months. The wife of the local reverend, Dominee (Reverend) Lukas van der Merwe, gave her mother medical advice and bought medicines for her that saved her life.
4) Ramphele&#;s political awakening came at a very young age. Her sister Mashadi was expelled from high school after she demonstrated against the celebrations of South Africa becoming a Republic in
5) She completed her schooling at Setotolwane High School in and subsequently enrolled for pre-medical courses at the University of the North.
6) Her meagre financial resources meant that she was force
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Mamphela Ramphele
Doctor, academic and first woman and Black person in South Africa to be a University Vice-Chancellor
Mamphela Ramphele was born on the 28th of December in the Bochum District in the Northern Transvaal. She attended the G. H. Frantz Secondary School but soon left for Bethesda, a boarding school. She then went to complete her matric at the Setotolwane High School. Her political awareness was awakened early in life when an uncle was detained for political activities, soon after this her elder sister also got excluded from high school for her participation in a demonstration against the formation of a republic in On completion of her matric year in , Mamphela enrolled for pre-medical courses at the University of the North.
In she was accepted into the University of Natal’s Medical School, then the only institution that allowed Black students to enrol without prior permission from the government. In , she became increasingly involved in stu
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Dr Mamphela Aletta Ramphele
Mamphela Ramphele was born on 28 December in Bochum District, Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo). Her mother, Rangoato Rahab, and her father, Pitsi Eliphaz Ramphele were primary school teachers. In , 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 , Ramphele witnessed a conflict between a racist Dominee (Reverend) and the people of the village of Kranspoort that also contributed to her political uppvaknande. 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 and buried th