Dr Mamphela Ramphele

The ANC has over 30 years dismally failed to execute the fundamental promise of our freedom struggle – land reform and restitution. This...

The recently released Report by the Global Commission on the Economics of Water  on 17/10/2024, offers us an opportunity to find our way...

Keynote Address at the SAMEA Conference, Johannesburg Thank you for the honour of your invitation to join you in your deliberations and...

Ian Fuhr has authored an important book: The Human Bridge – Racial Healing in South Africa.  The book focuses on the major fault lines of...

Memorial Lecture at Rhodes University The life and times of a giant such as Reverend Dr. Theocritus Simon Ndziweni Gqubule have much to...

Congratulations Mr President on your decision to courageously fulfil the mandate given to you as the President of our Constitutional...

The state of our world today is a reflection of our deep footprint as a human race on Mother Earth.  Humanity has already breached six of...

View here https://youtu.be/XHFzGiIdTWM or read below Berlin represents hope in the unseen. It is a city that never gave up on the idea of...

History is calling us to attention as citizens of this beautiful country.  The national elections of 29th May 2024 are a great...

Thank you for the invitation to your Department’s Lecture Series to share my thoughts on some of the most pressing matters in our...

We have another opportunity as citizens of our constitutional democracy to use the power of our votes to elect leaders who have the...

2024 is a mega year of democracy with more than 65 countries across the globe holding elections for public representatives and...

Speech delivered at the Future Elect graduating cohort of Women In Public Office fellows Introduction Thank you Lindiwe Mazibuko for the...

You have the opportunity to reshape the future of your country by using the power of your numbers to transform our politics from the...

Introduction I chose the title of this Lecture almost a year ago because I have become increasingly aware that humanity is at a...

A fully free South Africa with liberated citizens would be characterised by Ubuntu values at the personal, professional, socio-economic...

Thank you President Mandisa Monakali, the founder of this great institution, for inviting me to be your Speaker tonight. I am looking...

President Ramaphosa, I write to you as a concerned citizen, woman and mother, to thank you for your reminder to gender-based violent...

WHAT TRANSFORMATIVE CHANGE IS NEEDED NOW? Our founder, Aurelio Peccei, after selling millions of copies of The Limits to Growth, learnt...

South Africa is blessed with a few iconic figures who dedicated themselves to the liberation of our country from iniquitous extractive...