sentences:  Mapisa-Nqakula obtained a teacher's diploma from the Bensonvale Teachers College.In 1984, she left South Africa to undergo military training in Angola and the Soviet Union.During this time she served as the head of a commission that was set up by the ANC to investigate desertions of ANC Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) members to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Angola.