Ruth Segomotsi Mompati OMSS was a South African politician and a founding member of the Federation of South African Women in 1954.
14 Facts About Ruth Mompati
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Ruth Segomotsi Mompati was born in the far north of the former Cape Province.
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Ruth Mompati grew up in Ganyesa, a village in the North West province.
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In 1944, Ruth Mompati began teaching in Dithakwaneng Primary School near Vryburg.
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Ruth Mompati later moved to Vryburg Higher Primary School, where she was a teacher until 1952.
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Ruth Mompati was automatically terminated from her teaching position 1952 when she got married as the apartheid laws prohibited black female teachers from getting married.
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Ruth Mompati moved to Johannesburg in 1952, just after the Defiance Campaign began.
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Ruth Mompati went to a private school to study shorthand and typing.
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Ruth Mompati joined the African National Congress in 1954, and was elected to the National Executive Committee of the Women's League.
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In 1990, Ruth Mompati was chosen to be part of the ANC delegation that negotiated the peaceful transition with the South African government and conditions to be met to end political conflict in South Africa at Groote Schuur.
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Ruth Mompati was elected as a member of parliament in South Africa's first democratic election in 1994, where she served in the National Assembly until 1996.
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Ruth Mompati was appointed ambassador to Switzerland from 1996 to 2000.
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Ruth Mompati served as an executive member of the Umkhonto we Sizwe Veteran's Association.
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Ruth Mompati died on 12 May 2015, aged 89, following an illness at a Cape Town hospital.