66th birthday of Mamphela Ramphele

(Born 28 December 1947, Kranspoort, South Africa)

Medical doctor, active participant in the resistance for South African restoration-of-independence, co-founder, with Steve Biko, of the Black Consciousness Movement which, by the mid-1970s, strategically transforms the resistance to that irreversible ascendency that triumphs 15 years later, academic and first African vice-chancellor (president) of University of Cape Town, entrepreneur, founder, recently, of the Agang political party

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