Mavhungu Lerule-Ramakhanya

Biography

Mavhungu Maureen Lerule-Ramakhanya is a South African politician. A member of the African National Congress, Lerule-Ramakhanya is a former mayor of the Vhembe District Municipality. She was elected as a Member of the Limpopo Provincial Legislature in May 2019. She was then elected as the speaker of the legislature. In March 2020.

Quotes

• If you are insistent, you get raped, killed or even sidelined somehow with the intention to deem your light as a woman. From there, you face esteem challenges and are forced to conform to standards that are less and sometimes even more than who you are, against your desires
• However, identifying a passion and sticking to the standards that I conform to equate how much I value myself and that has helped me become the person that I am. I am simply me even in humbling situations
  • Lerule-Ramakhanya shares her views and aspirations for women in her province
• The individuals I have appointed to the Executive Council bring a wealth of experience, dedication, and a deep commitment to serving our people
• They have been chosen for their proven track records, their expertise in their respective fields, and their unwavering commitment to the values and principles that underpin our democracy
  • Ramathuba makes new appointment in her cabinet
• Though we produce quality bachelor passes, our maths and science pupils are doing well, and they go to universities, but because of our position, no one acknowledged what the teachers and the learners do in class
• Through that engagement, the principals realised that they were not talking to each other. The difficulty that this principal has is the same difficulty

[experienced at] the other school

• For the past two years, we have stabilised in terms of textbooks and learning material for the learners
• I no longer have to have a teacher in class and a teacher that goes with pupils to the gardens for practicals. The department of agriculture will close that gap. I’m happy that the department has adopted our schools

/** Lerule-Ramakhanya guides Limpopo out of its education doldrums