I was born and bred in a small village called Kgokong, Limpopo, South Africa. I attended Boshego Secondary School and obtained a PhD in the Division of Human Genetics and Department of Medicine in the University of Cape Town. I am a medical virologist and epigeneticist by background. I did few postdoctoral fellowships in both UCT and University of Oxford where I acquired a substantiated amount of knowledge in epigenetics and oncogenic viruses. I am currently based in the Nuclear Medicine Research Infrastructure at the Steve Biko Academic Hospital for the University of Pretoria. My current research interests involve studying the role of epigenetics in nuclear medicine, non-oncogenic and oncogenic viruses that are pertinent in Africa.