Mashe was born in 1965 in Angola .She came to Botswana in 1969 when she was four years old. She is not married and has no children.

She is a farmer and uses donkeys to plough. She learned weaving from her mother in the 80's at the age of 17. She used to sell baskets at BCC, then she joined the Etsha Weavers Group in 2000. She now weaves all the year round. Her favorite traditional design is forehead of the zebra and her favorite colours are black and yellow. She is proud of weaving baskets and she likes it.