VAKELE ARCHIBALD MKOSANA
Thank you.  I will start with the background.  I started my career as a professional soldier on the 2nd September 1982 as a member of Ciskei Defence Force.  I received inter alia twelve months basic training after which I was nominated to the officer's course.  I successfully completed a section leading course and officer's course.  Subsequently I successfully completed a company second in command course as well as commanding commander's course.
	In the normal course of events I also completed different infantry related courses and thus qualifying myself for my eventual promotion to the rank of a captain and subsequently to a major.  I presently hold rank of a Colonel in the South African Defence Force.  I was promoted to this rank in 1994.