A former member of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), she served as the party's provincial chairperson in Gauteng from 2018 to 2020.

[1] Mashego was born in King William's Town, Cape Province, to a black mother and a white father.

She said in an interview with the Mail & Guardian that the replacement of the party's first female provincial chairperson, Betty Diale, "saddened" her.

[5] In December 2019 at the EFF's national elective conference, Mashego opposed Marshall Dlamini for the position of Secretary-General.

[6] Malema later suggested in a tweet, which caused speculation, that Mashego was planning on defecting to former Johannesburg mayor Herman Mashaba's party.