I grew up in one of the farm in the Free State province and went to a primary school called Aprilskraal until finishing my std 5.I later moved to the Vaal in Evaton for my high school studies at Beverly Hills High School until I completed my matric certification in 1996, and registered at Vaal University of Technology for a course in Electrical engineering but only did my S1. I later went to work at Premier Foods as a sales man until 2007 and got a learnership opportunity at Nokia Siemens Network as a telecoms trainee. Upon completion under took an in service training at Neotel working at the Network Operating Center. On my third month got an opportunity to work for a branch Chinese company which was based in South Africa called SIsameng Mine, with its main activity of exporting chromite ore where I worked as an assistant manager dealing with operations.