User:Gilbertmotsaathebe

[http://www.googleGilbert Motsaathebe is a South African media trainer and professor of Journalism, Film and Television. He has taught in South Africa, Japan and the United Arab Emirates. He holds a PhD in Film and Media Studies from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. He started his broadcast-journalism career when he joined the former Bop-TV in Mafikeng immediately after completing a BA in Communication and English at the University of North West, formerly the University of Bophuthatswana. He left Bop-TV after three years and joined e-tv in Cape Town where he worked for four years. Towards the end of 2001 he moved to London and returned in 2002. In 2003 he joined the Department of Journalism at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology as a lecturer before moving to Japan in 2005.

Early life Gilbert Motsaathebe was born on December 26, 1973 in Morokweng, South Africa. She attended Mabone Primary School, Ogodiseng Middle School and Setswankgosing High School before enrolling at the University of Bophuthatswana in Mafikeng. Motsaathebe received his BA, BA Hons in Communication and MA in Communication from the North-West University in Mafikeng. He received his Ph.D. from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. He is the author of numerous academic publications, novels and self-help publications, including Basadi lwa reng – Womanhood (2010) and The Ultimate You (2009).

He is the founding president of the Mmabatho ANC Youth League Branch.

Honours and Awards In 2011 he became a Fellow of the SEPHIS program. In 2016 the US government selected Gilbert for the International Leadership Visitor Program (IVLP). In 2018 he received the South African National Research Foundation rating award for his academic work. Received the 1992 National Science Fair Award.