Gaolathe was born in Botswana, a small but very beautiful country in Sothern Africa. He grew up in a small mining town called Selibe Phikwe, where he completed his primary and secondary school education. He then moved to Gaborone, the capital city of Botswana, to pursue a Bachelor of Science degree in agriculture at the Botswana College of Agriculture, an associate institute of the University of Botswana. For his honours research he determined the rate of growth and development of different Moringa oleifera provenances in Botswana. The objective of the project was to determine which provenance is most suited to the climatic conditions in Botswana. Upon completion of his undergraduate degree, he was offered a scholarship by the Botswana International University of Science and Technology (BIUST) to pursue a Master of Science degree in Biology. The scholarship landed him in Canada, at Dalhousie University. His masters’ research was in the area of molecular and cell biology. He isolated cDNAs for ethylene receptor, ETR1, as well as ubiquitin, and determined their transcript levels at different stages of perforation formation in Aponogeton madagascariensis. He also constructed a preliminary expressed sequence tag (EST) database for A. madagascariensis window stage leaves. He completed his Master of Science degree and is now doing his PhD still in the beloved PCD lab at Dalhousie University. His PhD research is mainly focused on the role of ethylene and ethylene receptors in perforation formation in A. madagascariensis.