Mamphela Aletta Ramphele has been a student activist, a medical doctor, a community development activist, a researcher, a university executive, a global public servant and is now an active citizen in both the public and private sectors. Following the Soweto uprising in , she was detained without trial, released after five months and soon afterwards served with an apartheid banning order.
She studied Medicine at the then University of Natal, has a B. Ramphele is the author of several books and publications on socio-economic issues in South Africa. She has received numerous national and international awards acknowledging her scholarship and leading role in spearheading projects for disadvantaged people in South Africa and elsewhere. Most recently, Dr. We use cookies to improve your experience on our website, and to help us analyze and understand our audience.
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The cookies is used to gather information regarding visitor activity on Issuu products. In August , Ramphele was detained under section 10 of the Terrorism Act , one of the first persons to be detained under this newly promulgated law. In April , Ramphele was issued with banning orders and banished to Tzaneen, Northern Transvaal now Limpopo , a place she was unfamiliar with.
Alone in a strange place, she turned to the church for help. A Father Mooney arranged for her to live with two African nuns at a place called Tickeyline, a village of poor people. She later set up home in Lenyenye Township in Tzaneen where she was under constant security police surveillance. Here she set about empowering women, encouraging them to establish vegetable gardens among other initiatives.
A Father Duane became a close friend, risking arrest by taking her on trips to escape the boredom a banned person experiences. She assisted her in securing a passport when Ramphele had to travel abroad.
Father Timothy Stanton, an Anglican priest would visit her and celebrate Eucharist with her. For this, she had to apply for a special dispensation to travel to Johannesburg where she had to report at the John Vorster Square Police Station upon her arrival and departure. Ramphele left Lenyenye in to go to Port Elizabeth where she was offered a job at Livingstone Hospital.
Ramphele and her two sons by now she had a second son from her marriage to Sipo Magele moved to a house in Gugulethu , Cape Town. In Ramphele left with her sons for Harvard College, America where she was the Carnegie Distinguished international Fellow for the — academic year. Here she wrote up her research data on the hostels as a PH. In , she joined the World Bank in Washington as one of four managing directors, responsible for human development, the first South African to hold this position at this institution.
She oversaw the strategic positioning and the operations of the World Bank Institute and was the vice-presidency of external affairs. In , she was voted 55 th of the Top Great South Africans. Campbell, C. Mamphela Aletta Ramphele [online] Available at: www.
Unisa Press, Pretoria Ramphele M. Mamphela Ramphele: A Life. Mamphela Ramphele , [online] Available at www. Further reading list. Dr Mamphela Aletta Ramphele.
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