HAVING held several senior appointments with both provincial and national government departments, Mr Mosola held the post - immediately prior to his appointment with South African Tourism - of Chief Director: Tourism Development with the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism (D.E.A.T) in Pretoria.

His responsibilities covered a number of high profile initiatives including tourism business development and the management of the Tourism Enterprise Programme in conjunction with the Business Trust, aimed at the development of 1 000 black SMMEs over a four-year period.

In addition, he was responsible for the promotion and marketing of key transfrontier investment opportunities such as the Lubombo Spatial Development Initiative and the GKG(Gaza-Kruger Gonarezhou) tourism and bio-diversity corridor as well as the management of the Domestic Tourism Research Study.

Holding a number of high level, business-related qualifications as well as an MA in Economics and a BA in Neuroscience and Psychology, Mosola trained, studied and lived in North America for a total of eight years, latterly as the 1998 Nelson Mandela Economic Scholar at the University of Houston, Texas. Prior to this, he studied at such prestigious institutions as Harvard University in Boston as well as studied and lectured with the Economics faculties at the University of the Witwaterstrand in Johannesburg and the University of Colorado in Boulder, USA.