{"id":1234,"date":"2014-02-14T19:19:11","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T18:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buzzsouthafrica.com\/?p=1234"},"modified":"2022-12-17T08:51:32","modified_gmt":"2022-12-17T07:51:32","slug":"mamphela-ramphele","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buzzsouthafrica.com\/mamphela-ramphele\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamphela Ramphele: 10 Things You Didn’t Know About The Activist"},"content":{"rendered":"
Mamphela Ramphele is a South African politician, an anti-apartheid activist, academic, a businesswoman, and medical practitioner. She is known for several things, including being a partner of anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko.<\/strong><\/p>\n If you’ve ever heard about Mamphela Ramphele, then you probably know that she is 65 years old, an anti-apartheid activist, a businesswoman and an academic. You also most likely know her as a partner of the\u00a0legendary anti-apartheid icon Steve Biko<\/a>. But that is just the tip of the iceberg. There is much more than you don\u2019t know. Here are 10 Things you didn’t know about her.<\/p>\n Summary of Mamphela Ramphele’s Biography<\/strong><\/p>\n You probably know that Mamphela Ramphele was born to Pitsi Eliphaz and Rangoato Rahab, who were both school teachers. What you probably don\u2019t know is that Ramphele\u2019s mother, Rangoato Rahab was an activist in her own way. Rahab lived in a society which oppressed women. One of the oppression was through denying them the opportunity to eat meat. While all the other dishes were prepared by women, meat was prepared by men. It was only after the men had eaten their full, that the leftovers were given to women and children. Rahab defied this tradition! She would go to the pot where men were cooking meat, scoop out some pieces and give it to the children. Other women began emulating her, and that discriminatory tradition was kicked out of the village. Ramphele obviously learned her first lessons in activism from her mother.<\/p>\n\n
1. Her Mother<\/strong><\/h3>\n