Rakgoale was born in the village of Balloon in the apartheid-era Lebowa bantustan, now situated in the Limpopo province of South Africa.
Rakgoale gradually ascended through the leadership ranks of the student movement, leading to her election as the deputy provincial chairperson of SASCO in Limpopo in 2001.
[2] After university, Rakgoale found work at the then provincial Department of Local Government and Housing as a community development worker.
[3][4] On 30 June 2014, the ANC named Rakgoale as the successor to the ousted Executive Mayor of the Mopani District Municipality, Joshua Matlou, who was recalled over allegations of factionalism.
[9][10] In January 2019, Rakgoale came under scrutiny after a voice recording was released in which she promised ANC branch members in the Mopani region jobs in exchange for their votes and told them not to sell their votes at the provincial list conference held at Bolivia Lodge in Polokwane the previous month.
[16][17] In August 2022, Rakgoale oversaw the launch of provincial leg of national pothole patching programme named "Operation Thiba Mekoti Ditseleng".