Mafule Moswane

Mafule Morelearn Moswane is a geography lecturer at UNISA, an author, and the co-founder, Vision Bearer and board chairperson of the Faculty of Best Advisory (FBA), founded in 2012 to inform, uplift and empower communities through access to valuable information. FBA students are now at all 26 public universities across South Africa’s nine provinces.

In 2018 he was a Mandela Washington Fellow, the flagship programme of the Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI), spending six weeks at Kansas State University in the United States. He returned in 2019–2020 as a lecturer, academic and researcher at Kansas State’s Staley School of Leadership Studies, the first African to teach there, lecturing Introduction to Leadership Studies (LEAD 212) and Culture and Context (LEAD 350).

Mafule holds a BSc (2014), Honours (2015) and a Master of Science (2018) in Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies from the University of the Witwatersrand. He graduated among the top 15% of Wits’ Faculty of Science, earning Golden Key membership, and received the Champion of Service award from Wits Citizenship and Community Outreach in 2015. He has also worked as a research coordinator at the University of Johannesburg and as a Graduate Financial Advisor at PPS, where he was named employee of the year in 2026.

His books, A Learner’s Guide to Academic Success and the bestseller Katrina and Other Untold Stories, have been used in teaching in both South Africa and the United States. Katrina, an anthology of African short stories, challenges old ideas about gender roles and opens a conversation between generations. While studying at Wits, Mafule served as an ambassador for Club Readership, and he writes for media platforms including SABC digital news.