Matseliso Grace Mota is a legal practitioner in human rights advocacy, alternative dispute resolution, compliance management, and legislative drafting. Matseliso currently works for the Land Administration Authority in Lesotho and participates in activities under the purview of the Internal Audit Office. She has mediated on different issues, including inheritance, encroachment, boundary, and title disputes. Working with title disputes has allowed Matseliso to help elderly widowed women who are often taken advantage of by real estate agents undertaking unregulated land transactions. When cases remain unresolved, they are referred to litigation in which claimants have to hire lawyers, placing a hefty price on access to justice. Matseliso holds a Bachelor of Laws from the National University of Lesotho. On completion of the Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders, Matseliso plans to support the introduction of a legal and regulatory framework for the real estate agent sector in Lesotho to ensure that the land rights of users?particularly elderly women?are protected, as well as to redress the legal and economic impediments the sector poses to land administration.
