| Thabo Motsieloa | |
| Birth Date: | 17 March 1961 |
| Birth Place: | London, England |
| Birth Name: | Thabo Motsieloa |
Thabo Motsieloa (born 17 November 1961) is a Swedish television news presenter and former actor.
In 1983 he founded the martial arts sports club Södermalms shaolin kung fu.[1]
Motsieloa founded Thabo Motsieloa Masters Cup a mixed martial arts competition using Allstyle, combat sport rules that allows a wide variety of fighting techniques. Motsieloa designed the rules and regulations. This event is one of the biggest Martial Arts competitions in Scandinavia.[2]
Motsieloa wrote columns for newspaper Aftonbladet in the early 1990s, before he moved to television, where he led TV shows such as current affairs debate program Black or White,[3] Cold Case Sweden[4] [5] and investigative journalism program Drevet. During the summers of 2005 and 2006 he worked as a news broadcaster for TV 4 and in 2008 he was a sports commentator during the Olympic games.[6]
As an actor, he has appeared in Speranza at Uppsala City Theater (1992), and other plays.
Since 2013 he has been the co-host of Aftonbladet TV's Brottscentralen a documentary/reality legal series that chronicles the daily lives of police officers.[7]
He was born 17 November 1961 in London, England. His parents are from South Africa and met while attending university in the UK. In 1962 they moved to Sweden.[8] His mother was a nurse, therapist and international aid worker. His father was a medical doctor and jazz musician. Motsieloa grew up in the Solna, Vallentuna and Sollentuna municipality in Stockholm County