Thabo Motsieloa (born 17 November 1961) is a

Swedish Swedish or ' may refer to: Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically: * Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland ** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used by ...

television

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and former

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. In 1983 he founded the martial arts sports club Södermalms

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. Motsieloa founded ''Thabo Motsieloa Masters Cup'' a

mixed martial arts Mixed martial arts (MMA), sometimes referred to as cage fighting, no holds barred (NHB), and ultimate fighting, and originally referred to as Vale Tudo is a full-contact combat sport based on striking, grappling and ground fighting, inc ...

competition using Allstyle,

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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

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. 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'', ''Cold Case Sweden'' and

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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

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. As an actor, he has appeared in ''Speranza'' at

Uppsala Uppsala (, or all ending in , ; archaically spelled ''Upsala'') is the county seat of Uppsala County and the fourth-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö. It had 177,074 inhabitants in 2019. Located north of the c ...

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.

Personal life

He was born 17 November 1961 in

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. His parents are from

South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the Atlantic Ocean, South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the ...

and met while attending university in the UK. In 1962 they moved to Sweden. His mother was a nurse, therapist and international aid worker. His father was a medical doctor and jazz musician. Motsieloa grew up in the

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and Sollentuna

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in Stockholm County

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Motsieloa, Thabo 1968 births Living people Swedish television journalists Swedish people of South African descent