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Mamphela Ramphele

Mamphela Aletta Ramphele

Founder and Leader: Agang South Africa


Born 28-12-1947 in Polokwane South Africa

Mamphela Ramphele is the Chairperson of Circle Capital Ventures Limited. She is the former Chairperson of Goldfields Limited. She is also an academic, businesswoman and medical doctor and was an anti-apartheid activist.

She was one of the founders of the Black Consciousness Movement, along with Steve Biko. Mamphela Ramphele was voted 55th in the Top 100 Great South Africans in 2004. She is currently serves as a Director of Medi-Clinic Corporation Limited and Business Partners.

In February 2013 she officially launched a new political party platform called Agang, which is Sesotho for ‘build’.


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Current Position(s)

Founder | Agang South Africa
2013 - present

Government, Public Administration and Defence

Founder of a communal political platform aimed at engaging ordinary South Africans in developing a new political party.

Previous Position(s)

Director | Business Partners Limited
Johannesburg | 2005 - 2009
Director | STANDARD BANK GROUP LTD
Johannesburg | 2005 - 2007

Accounting, Banking and Finance

Director | MEDICLINIC INTERNATIONAL
Cape Town | 2005 - July 2012

Medical, Healthcare and Pharmaceuticals

Managing Director | Human Development Network | World Bank Group
2000 - 2004

Accounting, Banking and Finance

Deputy Vice-Chancellor | University of Cape Town
Cape Town, South Africa | 1991 - 1996

Academia, Education and Training

Research fellow | University of Cape Town
Cape Town, South Africa | 1986 - 1986

Academia, Education and Training

Vice-Chancellor | University of Cape Town
Cape Town, South Africa

Academia, Education and Training

Vice President | External Affairs | World Bank Group

Accounting, Banking and Finance

Independent Non-Executive Director | REMGRO LIMITED

Accounting, Banking and Finance

Educational history

Tertiary

New York University

Honorary Doctorate - Humane Letters

University of the Witwatersrand

Diploma in Tropical Health & Hygiene

University of KwaZulu-Natal

Honorary Doctorate in Medicine

University of Cape Town

Doctor of Philosophy

University of the Witwatersrand

Diploma in Public Health

Hunter College

Awarded in 1984

Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters

University of KwaZulu-Natal

Completed 1972

Bachelor of Medicine

Tufts University

Honorary Doctor of Science

University of Cambridge

Awarded in 2001

Honorary Doctor - Law

Achievements

Awards

Medal of Distinction | Barnard College

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Anglo American South Africa

Board Member

Transnet

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community

Bunting Institute

Fellow

Rockefeller Foundation

Trustee

The Link South African Fund

Trustee

Rockefeller Foundation

Trustee

Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund

Trustee

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