Tshegofatso Mothapo

Human Rights LL.M. Student

Home Country: South Africa
Cohort: 2025

Tshegofatso Mothapo is a  practitioner from Ga-Mashashane village in Limpopo, South Africa. She earned her LLB at the University of the Western Cape, where her heart for Human Rights filled out. She then read towards her LLM in Human Rights Protection, majoring in Unaccompanied and Separated Refugee Children.

She started her career at Lawyers for Human Rights. During her three years there, Tshegofatso engaged in both litigation and other advocacy tools to further the rights of Refugee and Stateless communities. Towards her third year she focused on children, youth and women. She sat on the National Steering Committee on unaccompanied and Separated Children alongside UNICEF, UNHCR, Save the Children, Departments of Home Affairs, Department of Social Development serving an advisory role.

Tshegofatso clerked for Justice Tshiqi and Mathopo on the Constitutional Court of South Africa for two years. Tshegofatso dreams of attaining an LL.M. in International Human Rights Law, situated at the intersection of the right to health and intellectual property.