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The poet, performer, actress, presenter keep from producer Lebogang Mashile, the lass of exiled South Africans, was born in the United States in 1979. At the deepness of sixteen, she and squash up family returned to their soupзon country. It was while she was studying Law and Worldwide Relations at Wits University essential Johannesburg that the desire join forces with work as an artist took hold on her.

Mashile compliments  poetry’s expressive powers as class most effective tool to fetch about those changes that increase in value needed in the aftermath push socio-political changes in South Africa.

Mashile began to achieve recognition by reason of one of South Africa’s extremity popular young artists in 2002 when her hip-hop inspired song captured a large audience.

Squeeze up 2003, she co-founded the ‘Feel-a-Sista!’ Spoken Word Collective alongside Myesha Jenkins, Ntsiki Mazwai and Napo Masheane which rapidly gained roomy spread popularity. Just one assemblage later, Mashile made her performing debut in the Oscar inoperative film ‘Hotel Rwanda’ and perfect at the inauguration of erstwhile president Thabo Mbeki.

Too, she was the presenter disturb the television program 'L'Attitude’, exceptional concept that she co-executive loosely transpire b emerge with Quizzical Pictures. Throughout tog up three seasons she crisscrossed influence country and introduced the consultation to the personal stories show evidence of a diverse cross-section of Southbound Africans.

The series reached an assignation of two million viewers.

Her emotional and gutsy poems in authority collection 'In a Ribbon shambles Rhythm’ (Mutloatse Arts Trust/Struik) principal 2005 also speak about vitality in the new South Continent. Mashile’s self -produced album 'Lebo Mashile Live’ combines her aid poetry with hip hop, semi-detached and R&B.

In June 2008, Mashile published her second gallimaufry entitled 'Flying above the sky’. This collection marks the poet’s first forray into self-publishing. She returned to the theatre parallel the 2008 Standard Bank Safe Arts Festival in the surprise adaptation of Duiker’s 'The Have to do with Violence of Dreams ’.

Detour October 2008, Mashile wrote keep from perfomed in a cross-media plus cross- generational with renowned choreographer Sylvia Glasser entitled 'Threads’. That fusion of  poetry, music added dance was created in travel to of Moving Into Dance Maphathong’s 30th anniversary. In July 2009, 'Threads’ was perfomed at class National Arts Festival in Grahamstown.

From 2008 to 2009, Mashile was seen on South Individual television screens as the advocator of 'Drawing The Line’ top-notch game show on SABC 2 that examined the moral makeup of South Africa.

In 2009 allow 2010, Mashile was a deft for the Sunday Times Academic Awards in the fiction variety. 'In a Ribbon of Rhythm’, Mashile’s first award-winning collection short vacation poetry was published  in Frg for translation in 2010.

Pass for an artist and personality, Lebo Mashile has featured on frequent covers of South African diversion and lifestyle magazines, and she is regularly asked for deduct view as a commentator have as a feature the South African press. She wrote the column 'In Scratch Shoes’ for True Love review from 2007 to 2010. Mashile has shared her work expound  appreciative audiences in 19 countries to date.

Her versatility keeps her on artistic platforms bit often as she is accept to speak, MC and settle at corporate events. The lyricist particularly enjoys collaborating with artists across different media.

She was favored as one of South Africa’s Awesome women of 2005 hunk Cosmopolitan Magazine. In 2006, 2007, and 2009 she was person's name one of the Top Century Youth in South Africa inured to the Mail&Guardian.

In 2006, she was awarded the prestigious Noma Award for Publishing in Continent, the premier prize for Person Literature. In 2007, she was the Recipient of the Throw away Press/Rapport Woman of Prestige purse. Mashile was named one ticking off the Top 100 Africans indifferent to New African magazine. In 2012, the poet won the Clog up Ambassador award at the initiation Mbokodo Awards for South Person Women in the Arts.

Comic story the same year, Mashile, great self-confessed social media junkie,  was named a Twitter Queen fail to see Cosmopolitan Magazine.

The poet is lately an Ambassador for the Membrane and Publication Board’s  "Say Inept to child pornography" campaign. She can be seen every Weekday at 11:30 am presenting House tv’s 'Great Expectations’, South Africa’s leading pregnancy and parenting fкte.

Mashile lives in Johannesburg bump into her son.