Born in the Free State, Precious Mamotingoe Lesupi is an aspiring journalist, activist and rape victim-survivor. She is a journalism student at the University of the Free State and a reporter for the campus newspaper, Irawa. She has worked with Next Chapter, The South African Federation for Mental Health and The African Umbrella for Mental Health Society based in Botswana as a mental health activist. She is also a poet, freelance writer and photographer.