Mamphela Ramphele: A Passion for Freedom

Mamphela Ramphele: A Passion for Freedom
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'The temerity of writing one's biography needs to be explained. It is a foolish act by any description. Why make oneself so vulnerable?
I have reasons to tell my story. It is a story of loss, and storytelling is part of the struggle to transcend loss. It is also imperative in our deeply wounded society. The past cannot be undone: it has to be transcended.'

When Mamphela Ramphele was born in a rural village in Limpopo, few would have predicted that she would become not only a medical doctor, but an acclaimed author, academic and business leader, prominent in two political movements: Black Consciousness in the 1970s and Agang SA in 2013. This book charts the incredible story of a woman who, despite detention, banishment, and the loss of the father of her unborn child to police torture, never gave up expanding the bounds of the possible.

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Mamphela Ramphele. Mamphela Ramphele: A Passion for Freedom

Preface

Chapter 1: One hot afternoon in December

Chapter 2: Moeng etla ka gešo, re je ka wena

Chapter 3: The notion of home

Chapter 4: boSofasonke

Chapter 5: School, the institution

Chapter 6: Matriculation is not a mattress

Chapter 7: The death of my father

Chapter 8: Initiation into activism

Chapter 9: Frank Talk and Black Consciousness

Chapter 10: Personal relationships

Chapter 11: ‘. . . ours is to accept and bear the pain’

Chapter 12: Community life in King

Chapter 13: A huge historical burden

Chapter 14: Detention

Chapter 15: ‘Well, Dr Ramphele, goodbye, you bitch!’

Chapter 16: A brief interlude

Chapter 17: That fateful day – 12 September 1977

Chapter 18: A matter of survival

Chapter 19: Forging an independent lifestyle

Chapter 20: Cape Town

Chapter 21: As mother and professional

Chapter 22: When the engine stopped

Chapter 23: Smelling the flowers

Chapter 24: The pain of loss

Chapter 25: Stretching across boundaries

Chapter 26: In my wildest dreams

Chapter 27: If you had all the cards on your side

Chapter 28: A woman in a hurry

Chapter 29: The VC years

Chapter 30: Funding the changes

Chapter 31: Moving on

Chapter 32: An exit strategy

Chapter 33: Being an active citizen

Chapter 34: Mobilising against the fear

Chapter 35: Agang

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MAMPHELA RAMPHELE

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The names of children in an extended family within this system are not only predictable, but also pregnant with meaning and pulsate with the tensions embedded within each patrilineage. With knowledge of the naming system one can deduce the family tree from a set of names. Children born out of wedlock can also be easily identified by their names, which are out of kilter with the system, unless some agreement is reached between the two families to ritually adopt the child ‘who has come with his mother’. In most cases such children are adopted by their mothers’ brothers and brought up in their households to avoid the conflicts which often occur in families with children ‘who came with their mothers’.

My mother was Matlou, thus my elder brother’s praise name was Tlou, as he was named after my father’s immediate elder brother Mathabatha, with the same praise name. My sister, Mashadi Ramaesela Ruth, being the eldest daughter, was named after an important female in the Ra­mphele lineage. Because he had no sisters my father had greater freedom in naming her, so he chose his grandmother’s name, Ramaesela. Mashadi, her first name, was given to her by my maternal grandmother, Koko Mamphela, in honour of the German woman who was the founder and matron of Helen Frantz Hospital at the time of her birth. Helen Frantz was given the name Mashadi by the locals, because she could not pronounce the Sotho word for ‘women’ (basadi), referring to them instead as mashadi.

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