Malebogo Molefhe

Malebogo Molefhe (born 1980) is a Motswana basketball player who became an activist against gender based violence after being shot eight times. In 2017, she received an International Women of Courage Award.

Life Molefhe was born in 1980. She was chosen to represent her country at basketball, playing the sport professionally since the age of 18. She lives in Manyana.

Malebogo grew up in the southern African nation of Botswana and lives south of Gaborone. Her former boyfriend attacked her in 2009, when she was 29. In the attack, her boyfriend shot her eight times. The attacker, who was described as "deranged", then shot himself dead. Malebogo survived and recovered from the attack, but now uses a wheelchair due to spinal injury.

On 29 March 2017 she and 12 other women of other nationalities She was the first Botswanan woman to receive such an award. As the United Nations Population Fund has announced, more than two-thirds of Botswana women have faced some kind of gender-based violence in their life.