(18 Feb 2013) SHOTLIST
1. Wide of news conference
2. Mid Mamphela Ramphele, leader of the new "Agang" political party, walking along and then sitting down
3. Close of Ramphele
4. Wide of news conference
5. Cutaway of press
6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Mamphela Ramphele, leader of the new "Agang" political party:
"Today I announce that I am working with a group of fellow South Africans to form a party political platform that will focus on rekindling hope that building the country of our dreams is possible in our lifetime."
7. Wide of news conference
8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Mamphela Ramphele, leader of the new "Agang" political party:
"We launch this initiative under the Sesotho name 'Agang', in the Nguni languages of our country, 'Akhani', which can be interpreted in English to mean 'build'. Let's build the country of our dreams."
9. Cutaway of cameras
10. Ramphele drinking from cup as she talks to guest in garden
11. Mid of Ramphele meeting guests
12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Moeletsi Mbeki, political analyst:
"It's a political initiative, as far as I understood, to bring together people who feel that the dream has faded, the dream that South Africans had has faded, that incompetence in the state is rising and has risen and that corruption is a major problem in South Africa. So, she feels that she has the ability to do something about it, or to bring people together, South Africans who want to do something about the incompetence of the state about the corruption in the government."
13. Mid Ramphele embracing man and then walking through doorway into building
STORYLINE:
The academic and co-founder of South Africa's Black Conscious Movement, Mamphela Ramphele, announced the creation of a new political party on Monday "to build the South Africa of our dreams."
At the same time she lambasted the 101-year-old African National Congress (ANC) of Nelson Mandela for corruption and power abuse.
The 65-year-old medical doctor, social anthropologist and former World Bank managing director told a news conference that her party will contest the 2014 national elections.
"Today I announce that I am working with a group of fellow South Africans to form a party political platform that will focus on rekindling hope that building the country of our dreams is possible in our lifetime," she said.
Her party joins several in opposition at a time when South Africa is burdened by a growing chasm between rich and poor, as well as massive unemployment, and increasingly violent protests against job losses, utility shortages and an education and health system in crisis.
Ramphele has what South Africans call "struggle credentials."
She was an anti-apartheid activist and domestic partner of Black Consciousness co-founder Biko, with whom she had a son.
Ramphele spent seven years under house arrest enforced by the white-minority apartheid regime in the 1970s, and she used her expulsion to a remote rural area to start a health programme and empower women through initiatives like growing vegetables.
In 1988 she went to Harvard University as the Carnegie Distinguished International Fellow and wrote a doctorate of philosophy thesis based on her research at hostels.
She later wrote a book about life in the migrant labour hostels.
Ramphele has received numerous honorary degrees from around the world and is an honorary member of the Alpha and Iota chapters of Phi Beta Kappa at Radcliffe College and Harvard University in the United States.
Ramphele said her party, called Agang in the Sesotho language meaning "Build," will be funded by South Africans at home and abroad.
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