The first elementary school attended by Mabota at the Missão de São Roque Mission Station in Matutuíne, about 100 kilometers from the capital.

She rejected a job offer of the Mozambican secret service Serviços de Informação e Segurança do Estado (SISE).

As a result, she obtained her access to a higher education, but could not bring herself to study medicine - since she did not want to see any corpses, according to her own statement - nor international relations, - since she could not speak English or French.

Later, she worked at the Patrocínio e Assistência Jurídica (IPAJ) and at the state realty administration Administração do Parque Imobiliário do Estado (APIE).

Back in Vienna in 1995, together with other Mozambican activists and intellectuals, she founded the Liga dos Direitos Humanos de Moçambique, in English "Human Rights League", based on the Guinea-Bissau model.

[1][2] Since then Alice Mabota has chaired the Human Rights League and has established herself as one of Mozambique's civil society's most popular voices.