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Dr Vanguard Mkosana is a South African Liberation and Freedom fighter.He attended primary school at Mqonci Primary school in Mbhashe Local Municipality, then went to B.V. and St Johns.He graduated from the University of Fort Hare and worked as a teacher in Ngwenze SSS, where he got lost when he got into the struggle.

Biography
Vanguard (Van) was a founder and Executive Director of Phokophela Investment Holdings (Pty) Ltd, which has MICT SETA accreditation. He served as chairman of the Eastern Cape Rural Development Agency; Chairman of Amathole Economic Development Agency trading as ASPIRE and Chairman of Mayibuye Transport Corporation (MTC) and as Mintek Board Chairperson. Van was an accomplished social entrepreneur with more than 30 years of experience. He worked as a consultant focusing on skills development for the unemployed rural youth with vast experience in NGOs, public sector and private sector. Vanguard had broad understanding of the SA labour market dynamics. He served in the National Executive Committee of the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) as Head of Publicity Department with offices in Zambia, UK, Canada and Denmark. He helped in training most of the trade union leaders of SA in the late 1980’s and early 1990s. He later served as the Overall Convenor of Government in NEDLAC where all labour market policies go through in SA. He served as chairman of African Union Labour and Social Affairs Commission. He served as Convenor of Africa in the International Labour Organisation (ILO) in Geneva. Vanguard spent years as head of department in government. He was the founding Permanent Secretary (Head of Department) of Transport in Eastern Cape. He was involved in the formulation of SA transport policies under the new dispensation from 1995. He helped in twinning the Department with its counterpart in Lower Saxony-Germany. During his term in office he worked closely with the public transport entities like Mayibuye Transport Corporation, TRTC and Algoa Bus Services. He served in the board of SARCC the current Metro Rail. He served as Head of Department/Office of the Premier in Eastern Cape under Premiers Raymond Mhlaba and Rev Makhenkesi Stofile respectively. In government he also worked as the Director General of the Department of Labour. After this he became the Special Advisor to the Minister of Labour. In addition to his broad experience Vanguard has the following qualifications: Phdr; MA (journalism)-Charles University; Diploma in Human Resource Management- Damelin Business School; Diploma in Gender Equity, Employment Promotion & Poverty Alleviation Turin ILO Training Centre; Certificate in Corporate Coaching-University of Cape Town; Certificate in Public Management & Development-University of Fort Hare & University of Western Cape; Certificate in Applied IT for Executive Management- University of Fort Hare; Senior Executive Programme for Southern Africa Certificate-Harvard Business School & Wits School of Business.