“Back in 1977, when there were protests and schools were suspended by the regime, we tried to boycott formal classes that were teaching an apartheid education and ran parallel schools.
Ramokgopa journey has not been easy because “there is no medicine without politics and no politics without medicine”. “In 1990, I went to do my internship as a doctor and had to decide which route to take. I felt that I’ll be more at ease with public health, to look at the underlying causes of illnesses and doing preventative medicine, research, looking at health policy, health systems and health economics.
During the #FeesMustFall student protests, she was chancellor of the Tshwane University of Technology and in 2017, returned as MEC for health.
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