Sethunya Tshepho Mosime (8 October 1974-10 December 2024)

The fields of feminism, gender, sexuality and anthropology in Southern Africa and their communities suffered a profound loss in 2024 when Dr. Sethunya Tshepho Mosime tragically died in a swimming pool accident in Gaborone, Botswana, on December 10, at the age of 50.The loss of Sethunya has been met with deep mourning across scholarly and activist communities of Southern Africa and beyond.Her passing has reverberated with particular force among African feminist thinkers, gender justice advocates, and the Southern African anthropological community, where she spent much of her professional life building solidarity, opening intellectual pathways, and nurturing generations of emerging scholars and activists.Sethunya was not only a flower in name but also in essence-a presence of deep grace, brilliance, and warmth.While her name also meant gun, she embodied this title through her sharp and insightful intellectual power, particularly in her analysis of power dynamics involving gender, coloniality, and decoloniality.Her work was consistently driven by care, humility, and a sense of political purpose.She seamlessly bridged the worlds of academia and activism, theory and community, always grounded in the social environments she explored and supported.Sethunya's academic formation reflected this breadth.She held a PhD in Culture, Communication and Media Studies from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, an MA in Development Anthropology from the University of Sussex, and undergraduate degrees in Sociology and Political Science from the University of Botswana.These foundations gave rise to a scholarly voice that was unapologetically African, critical, and always attentive to the ways power moves through bodies, institutions

Ancient history · Geography · Political science · African history and culture studies · African studies and sociopolitical issues · History · Land Rights and Reforms

• Media control, colonialism and the making of an authoritarian postcolonial African state

  Sethunya Tshepho Mosime•African Journalism Studies•2015

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• Historical entanglements, conflicting agendas and visions

  Sethunya Tshepho Mosime, Brilliant Mhlanga•Journal of African Media Studies•2016

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• The biopolitical subject

  Teresa K Connor, Teresa Connor et al.•Anthropology Southern Africa•2022

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