Sechaba Mokhethi

Sechaba Mokhethi is an investigative journalist and founding partner of MNN Centre for Investigative Journalism in Lesotho. He started out as a political writer for Public Eye, a local newspaper in Lesotho. He then moved to become the Lesotho correspondent for the South Africa based African Independent and for The Southern Times in Namibia. At the same time, he was contributing stories for Good Governance Africa and Germany-based IDN IndepthNews, a flagship of International Press Syndicate Group.

Mokhethi is former Secretary General for the Media Institute of Southern Africa-Lesotho. In 2019, he joined the amaBhungane Centre for Investigative Journalism as a Fellow. He soon established himself as a reliable investigative journalist in southern Africa. His story was rated the best among the Oxpeckers Centre for Investigative Journalism’s Data-Driven Reporting on Green Energy in Africa project in 2022. Mokhethi is part of the MNN team that produced investigations for the Africa China Reporting Project, Centre for Collaborative Investigative Journalism and Pulitzer Centre as grantees from 2021 to 2023.

Sechaba is a graduate of the 2022 Oxpeckers #PowerTracker professional support and training programme, supported by the CIJ’s Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI).

Read his story Gone With The Wind: Lesotho’s $15-Billion Energy Pipedream.