Matlhodi Angelina (Angie) Makwetla

Angie holds a BA (Social Work) degree from the University of the North, a Management Certificate from Arthur D Little Management School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, an Empowerment Workshop Trainer certificate from the Empowerment Institute in New York, and an SMME Management Certificate from Galilee College in Israel.

She worked for many years with the late Dr Aggrey Klaaste, managing the Sowetan Nation Building Programs.

Angie was appointed as a Commissioner for Human Rights on the 3rd January 2017.  She is responsible for children’s rights within the commission.
Angie is currently a member of the Board of Trustees of the National Empowerment Fund (NEF) where she is chairperson of the Social and Ethics Committee.  She is also a member of the Human Capacity and Remuneration Committee of the NEF.  She has received various awards and recognitions, including Shoprite/Checkers Woman of the Year Award (Media & Communications category), Visionary Leadership Award by the Soweto branch of the BWA, and Top emerging SMME Empowerment Company by Impumelelo Top Companies, a recognition endorsed by the dti.

Angie describes herself as a social entrepreneur, dedicated to life-long learning and upliftment of disadvantaged members of our communities.

She is inspired in her empowerment work by the words of former President Mandela:  “Only an all-round effort to inspire the life experience, skills, energies and aspirations of our people can lay the basis for a new SA.    Our RDP will guide us from apartheid to freedom.  We need to dedicate ourselves to challenges of reconstruction – not only of ourselves, but those around us whose lives we touch on a daily basis”