# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mamphela-ramphele
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:32:45.233Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mamphela-ramphele"
name: "Mamphela Ramphele"
slug: "mamphela-ramphele"
description: "Mamphela Aletta Ramphele is a South African politician, anti-apartheid activist, medical doctor and businesswoman. She was a partner of anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko, with whom she had two children. She is a former vice-chancellor at the University of Cape Town and a former managing director at the World Bank. Ramphele founded the political party Agang South Africa in February 2013 but withdrew from politics in July 2014. Since 2018, she has been the co-president of the Club of Rome."
tagline: "South African activist and politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mamphela_Ramphele%2C_2013_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1947-12-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.01
  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.18222666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/MamphelaR"
    handle:    "MamphelaR"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://mamphela-ramphele.com/"
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    title: "Mamphela Ramphele"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Mamphela Ramphele"
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    title: "Mamphela Ramphele"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump