Dr ruth mompati biography for kids

Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati was born in Tlapeng Village, few kilometres from Ganyesa in Kagisano-Molopo area within the district of Bophirima, now called Dr Ruth Mompati District Municipality, named after her. Born on the 14 September 1925, she grew up in a thoroughly rural environment. Between 1933 and 1940 she attended Vryburg United Primary Schools, where she completed Standard six (6). Two years later, she continued her schooling at Tigerkloof Institution of Education where she received her Native Lower Primary Certificate. In 1944 she started her teaching career at the age of nineteen in Dithakwaneng Primary School near Vryburg.

"She is passionately known as "Mama Ruta" within her community"

She got married in 1952 and moved to Soweto, Johannesburg to stay with in-laws.  Immediately became an active member of the ANC Orlando branch. In the same year, she studied short-hand and typing.

In 1953 she was employed by Mandela and Tambo Attorne

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MME RUTH MOMPATI, a life of courage and service

344pp., b/w & colour illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2023

Foreword by former President Thabo Mbeki. 

South African politician Ruth Segomotsi Mompati (1925 – 2015) worked as a teacher until 1952, when her teaching position was terminated, as apartheid laws prohibited married black women from teaching. From 1953 to 1961 she worked as a typist for Nelson Mandela and Oliver Tambo in their law practice in Johannesburg.

In 1954, she became a member of the National Executive Committee of the ANC Women’s League, was one of the founding members of the Federation of South African Women, and one of the organisers of the 1956 Women's March to the Union Buildings in Pretoria.

In 1990, Mompati was chosen to be part of the ANC delegation that negotiated the peaceful transition to democracy with the South African government. She was elected as a Member of Parliament in South Africa's 1994 election, and served in the National Assembly unti

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Ruth Mompati

South African politician (1925–2015)

Ruth Segomotsi MompatiOMSS (14 September 1925 – 12 May 2015) was a South African politician and a founding member of the statsförbund of South African Women (FEDSAW) in 1954.^[1] Mompati was one of the leaders of the Women's March on 9 August 1956.^[2]

Early life and education

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Ruth Segomotsi Mompati was born in the far north of the former Cape Province (today's North West Province). Mompati grew up in Ganyesa, a village in the North West province. Her parents, Mrs Seli Babe Seichoko and Mr Gaonyatse Seichoko, were church leaders in the London missionär Society Church (LMSC), Vryburg. After completing Standard 6, she worked for a white family as a childminder and later went to Tigerkloof Teachers Training College where she obtained a Primary School Teacher's Diploma in 1944.^[3][4]

Career

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In 1944, Mompati began teaching in Dithakwaneng Primary School near Vryburg. She later