Mmatshilo Motsei
Mmatshilo Motsei is an author, speaker and spiritual healer with a keen interest in integrating indigenous wisdom with modern innovations. She started her career as a nurse, midwife, psychology graduate, social science researcher, rural development facilitator, and Metaphysics Practitioner.
For over 10 years, she worked as a founder and CEO of Agisanang Domestic Abuse Prevention and Training, an organisation working on domestic and sexual violence based in Alexandra Township, Johannesburg. She has been instrumental in involving men as part of the solution to violence against women. Part of her work included using theatre as a tool for social transformation for men in and out of prison.
Later, she ventured into rural development facilitation working with youth and women in North West, Limpopo and Mpumalanga. In 2014, she was contracted by HIVOS in Harare to replicate a model that integrates gender, gender violence and microcredit finance with rural women across Zimbabwe.
She has worked with women across the continent. This includes working with women who were raped during the war in Mogadishu, Somalia. Beyond Africa, she has worked with various institutions in USA, Australia, Canada, Europe and Nepal.
In October 2013, she undertook a 7 day climb of Mount Kilimanjaro to raise funds for Tsogang Basadi Orphans Project in Maviljan village, Bushbuckridge, Mpumalanga.
In 2015, she went back to university as a full time student to pursue her love for writing by studying for her MA in Creative Writing at Rhodes University. Her forthcoming collection of short stories is based on life experiences of people who live in the margins of society in post-apartheid South Africa.
She is the Founding Director of Afrika Ikalafe Centre for Spirituality and Health. Aptly called Afrika Ikalafe, which means Afrika Heal Thyself, the work of the Centre serves as an invitation for Africa to challenge the lie of its inferiority and powerlessness.
Her passions are music, dance, nature, travel, and writing.
For over 10 years, she worked as a founder and CEO of Agisanang Domestic Abuse Prevention and Training, an organisation working on domestic and sexual violence based in Alexandra Township, Johannesburg. She has been instrumental in involving men as part of the solution to violence against women. Part of her work included using theatre as a tool for social transformation for men in and out of prison.
Later, she ventured into rural development facilitation working with youth and women in North West, Limpopo and Mpumalanga. In 2014, she was contracted by HIVOS in Harare to replicate a model that integrates gender, gender violence and microcredit finance with rural women across Zimbabwe.
She has worked with women across the continent. This includes working with women who were raped during the war in Mogadishu, Somalia. Beyond Africa, she has worked with various institutions in USA, Australia, Canada, Europe and Nepal.
In October 2013, she undertook a 7 day climb of Mount Kilimanjaro to raise funds for Tsogang Basadi Orphans Project in Maviljan village, Bushbuckridge, Mpumalanga.
In 2015, she went back to university as a full time student to pursue her love for writing by studying for her MA in Creative Writing at Rhodes University. Her forthcoming collection of short stories is based on life experiences of people who live in the margins of society in post-apartheid South Africa.
She is the Founding Director of Afrika Ikalafe Centre for Spirituality and Health. Aptly called Afrika Ikalafe, which means Afrika Heal Thyself, the work of the Centre serves as an invitation for Africa to challenge the lie of its inferiority and powerlessness.
Her passions are music, dance, nature, travel, and writing.
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