Clinic Botswana
World Spine Care started with the Pilot Project in Shoshong Village in Botswana. Since then, we have opened 3 other clinics in Gaborone and and Mahalapye.
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Clinic Locations
Tsholofelo/BH3 Clinic
Tel: +267 733 667 83
Tsholofelo, Gaborone, Botswana
Princess Marina Hospital
Tel: +267 310654
8WVF+7H Gaborone, Botswana
Shoshong Village
Tel: +267 4769033
Shoshong, Botswana
Mahalapye District Hospital
Tel: +267 4712072
Mahalapye, Botswana
Clinic Coordinator
Mufudzi Chihambakwe
Dr. Mufudzi Chihambakwe is passionate about public service, health care, creativity and development across Africa. He was born and raised in Zimbabwe, studied chiropractic in Durban, South Africa, and is now based in Gaborone, Botswana, where he serves as the Clinic Coordinator for World Spine Care.
He is the current president of the African Chiropractic Federation, an organization devoted to the promotion and unity of the chiropractic profession across the continent of Africa. He was elected President of the Botswana Association of Chiropractors in January 2024. He co-founded Spine Health Africa in 2017 in his last year of chiropractic college.
As an aspiring researcher, in 2019 he published his first research paper in Chiropractic and Manual Therapies and is currently pursuing a second master’s degree in Inclusive Innovation at the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business, exploring how spine care can be innovated to scale in underserved communities.
Clinic Supervisor
Michael Pretorius
Dr. Michael Pretorius, M.Tech (Chiro), graduated from the University of Johannesburg in 2021. He learned about WSC at a WCCS event in 2019 where he met Dr Mufudzi Chihambakwe, currently working as a clinic coordinator in the BH3 clinic in Gaborone Botswana.
After working in private practice in Johannesburg for 2 years, he decided to move to Botswana to work as a volunteer clinic supervisor in the Mahalapye and Shoshong clinics. He is now in his second year working in the Mahalapye and Shoshong clinics.
Michael is passionate about providing sustainable spine care in the public health sector. He is also an avid marathon and ultra-trail runner who enjoys the outdoors.
Interested in volunteering?
The World Spine Care Dr. Shannon Bloch Volunteer Grant offers financial assistance to qualified chiropractors based in North America who wish to volunteer as a Clinical Supervisor at one of the WSC Botswana Clinics and who can demonstrate a financial need, related to student debt.
Latest News from Botswana
This past summer, World Spine Care founder and president Dr. Scott Haldeman traveled to Botswana with his wife, Joan. They spent a few days touring the clinics and visiting with Dr. Mufudzi Chihambakwe and Dr. Michael Pretorius, the two chiropractors running the clinics in Gaborone, Mahalapye, and Shoshong Village. Dr. Haldeman shares some thoughts about the progress and future of World Spine Care in Botswana.