The launch of a new political party by Mamphela Ramphele is another step in building a new majority in South African politics, says the DA.
A voice such as Mamphela Ramphele’s in South African politics will be will be worth listening to, says Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu.
South Africa has all the ingredients for prosperity, says Mamphela Ramphele, except good leaders
The government has disputed Agang leader Mamphela Ramphele’s assertion that it has failed the youth by mismanaging the education system.
South Africa would be a better democracy if Nelson Mandela had served a second term as president, says Mamphela Ramphele.
Mamphela Ramphele has announced she applied to register her party political platform Agang as an official political party.
Freedom Day has been celebrated across the country with some political parties saying South Africa has overcome many hurdles since democracy in 1994.
Newly formed political party Agang will not be bullied by those in power, its leader Mamphela Ramphele has said at the party’s Freedom Day gathering.
Agang SA leader Mamphela Ramphele says fear is holding South Africans back from calling for positive change.
This is the only public comment that I will make on the whole saga of the threats made against me by Andile Mngxitama, writes Jared Sacks.
There is already too much violence in our politics. Public intellectuals have a responsibility to denounce violence, say readers.
South Africa is anything but a caring democracy, Agang leader Mamphela Ramphele has said.
Mail & Guardian readers respond to Jared Sacks’s article titled ‘Biko would not vote for Ramphele’.
Were he alive today, the Black Consciousness activist would be one of Mamphela Ramphele’s most ardent critics, says Jared Sacks.
In this week’s politics need to know we look at Wednesday’s budget, why Agang was formed, and the struggle Cyril Ramaphosa faces to stay at the top.
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We look at the Oscar Pistorius hearing, Mamphela Ramphele’s new political party, Sona, the upcoming budget speech and the artful Design Indaba.
Mamphela Ramphele’s Agang political platform was formed after the Democratic Alliance would not bow to a demand for its dissolution.
She says it only benefits a few politically connected individuals at the expense of the masses.
The advent of Mamphela Ramphele in politics is at once being hailed as a decisive shift in the electoral calculus and written off as a quixotic folly.
What does Dr Mamphela Ramphele stand for? Black consciousness? The answer is no. It turns out that Ramphele has become colour-blind.
South Africans deserve a more flesh-and-blood witness; a leader that ultimately sees the downtrodden, writes Eve Fairbanks.
Mamphela Ramphele tell us why SA needs her political platform Agang and responds to speculation about funding for the party coming from the US.
Mamphela Ramphele might have bitten off more than she can chew because we all know JZ has many tricks up his sleeve.
Mamphele Ramphela announces her entry into the political world and the Oscar Pistorius case still makes headlines worldwide as he applies for bail.
Money to support the newly-launched political platform Agang SA comes from South Africans, says its leader Mamphela Ramphele.
Mamphela Ramphele says all South Africans should help create "the country of our dreams". But we are a sceptical bunch who rarely heed such calls.
Mamphela Ramphele has called on South Africans to participate in her new party political platform Agang to chart a new direction for the country.
Mamphela Ramphele’s decision to resign as Gold Fields chairperson is long overdue, says the National Union of Mineworkers.
Anti-apartheid activist Dr Mamphela Ramphele has resigned as chair of Gold Fields, intensifying speculation she is about to launch a political party.
"She will do well but I don’t think we’re worried about what the prospects of her forming a political party will do to our voter base," says the DA.
Mamphela Ramphele has warned unrest in the mining and agricultural sectors would continue if efforts were not made to change the industries’ dynamics.
Mamphela Ramphele has been manoeuvring to get the official endorsement of high-profile South Africans before she launches a new political party.