Thabiso Monkoe was 
born in 1960. In 1976 
he was one of the students 
who mobilised for the upris￾ings resulting in the June 
1976 Soweto uprising. He is 
a June'76 survivor and activ￾ist. Thabiso studied Dental 
technology and Biochemistry at Munster University 
in West Germany, while in exile. In 1998 he joined 
the South African National Defence Force and was 
placed in the Logistics Department in 1 Military 
Hospital and later promoted to Lieutenant Colonel 
and deployed to the Defence Force Headquarters as 
a Project Officer for the acquisition of Chemical and 
Biological Defence Systems. Currently he is a retired �military veteran and a hobby Photographer.