Mamphela Ramphele
Mamphela Aletta Ramphele (* December 28, 1947 in Bochum District, Northern Transvaal, now Limpopo Province) is a South African doctor, businesswoman and politician. She was a partner of Steve Biko, the founder of the Black Consciousness Movement, worked as Managing Director for the World Bank and founded in 2013 the party Agang South Africa.
Life
Mamphele grew up as the child of a headmaster on along with six siblings. She graduated in 1966 Setotolwane High School as one of only two girls in her class. For two years she completed a pre-training to study medicine at the then University of the North, now the University of Limpopo, and then went in 1968 to the Medical School of the University of Natal. During her studies she came in contact with the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM ), the same time as Steve Biko. She was particularly involved in the development work in the black population. Despite the charges, she completed her medical studies in 1972 successfully. Your first assistant physician places they got in Durban and Port Elizabeth.
From the relationship with Biko, who was married at the time, had two children. The daughter died two months later of pneumonia. The son, Hlumelo Biko, came after the death of his father in 1978 to the world.
Because of the ownership rapt literature brought the judicial authorities in 1974 based on the Suppression of Communism Act against her accusation. Because of their political activities Ramphele was banned in 1977 by the then National Security laws and exiled to the city of Tzaneen in the north- east of the Transvaal. There she was hampered in their activities in the health sector by, she received a new Bannungsverfügung, according to them outside Tzaneen was not allowed to visit the stations that she founded. Since 1975, she studied in Economics in distance learning and earned a degree in 1984 from the University of South Africa. She received each to make a Postgraduate degree in Tropical Hygiene and Public Health Care in the approval by the police, at Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg.
After the exile Ramphele 1986 went to Cape Town, where Professor Francis Wilson had given her at the University of Cape Town research grants. With Wilson, she worked from then on the South African Labour Development Research Unit ( SALDRU ) of the University and with him published two books. In 1991, she received her doctorate at the University of Cape Town in Social Anthropology for Empowerment and the Politics of Space. In the same year she was Deputy Vice- Chancellor of the University.
After the end of apartheid
Ramphele 1996 Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Town and in 2000 as one of four managing directors at the World Bank in Washington, DC appointed.
2013 she works as a businesswoman in Cape Town. She was and is in management bodies of several companies operating in South Africa companies such as Anglo American South Africa and Transnet, represented since 2005 and chairman of Circle Capital Ventures Ltd. .. Between 2010 and 2013 she stood as chairman at the helm of the company Gold Fields Ltd. .. You is one of the sharpest critics of the government of the African National Congress ( ANC) and its representatives as President Jacob Zuma.
It is the leading figure of the party Agang South Africa ( Nord-Sotho/Setswana and English, such as: " Let us build South Africa "), which was founded on June 22, 2013 in Pretoria. The day before, already Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu had expressed his support for Mamphela Ramphele.
End of January 2014 was Ramphele by Helen Zille, the chairman of the main opposition Democratic Alliance Party of South Africa (DA), presented as a possible top candidate of the DA. Prerequisite for candidacy was that Ramphele Agang South Africa leaves. On February 3, 2014 Zille said that Ramphele will not leave their party and thus was not a candidate for the DA possible.