Josina Z. Machel

Machel founded the Kuhluka Movement which aims to end the stigma of domestic violence and support its survivors.

[6] In October 2015, her then partner Rofino Licuco, a Mozambican businessman, assaulted her so severely that one of her eyes had to be removed.

[9] Despite this, in August 2020 the Court of Appeal in Mozambique overturned the guilty verdict against Licuco, on the grounds that there were no eyewitnesses.

[9] As a survivor of domestic abuse, Machel has turned her personal trauma into a collective struggle, by founding the Kuhluka Movement, which in txopi (one of the languages in Mozambique) means Reborn.

[10] She has also worked for the ABC Atlas Mara in Mozambique and other international organizations, including the Emerald Group, and the Zizile Institute for Child Development.