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Educated in London at King's College, Katlego Tsholofelo was headhunted by the Witch Doctor to come and work in Azambia on a military grade exoskeleton which was a slight deviation on the subject of Tsholofelo's doctoral thesis. He worked in Azambia for months before realising that the dictator was planning to use the bodysuit to create an army of super-powered soldiers, but when he attempted to leave the Witch Doctor incarcerated him.

He was forced to work for Azambia and did so until the CIA sent a covert team of agents to free another scientist who was also working under duress. The CIA agents freed their American scientist as well as Tsholofelo and brought him back to the United States where a thankful Tsholofelo assisted the government with exoskeleton design. He had originally planned to use his design to assist his home country's development of a more efficient and safer diamond mining operation, but the United States were also more interested in military uses.

After creating a prototype in Botswana and testing it at one of the diamond mines, the plans were stolen by The Hunt: a mercenary group of ubers who worked for the Witch Doctor. Tsholofelo knew that he had to stop the plans from falling into Azambia's hands and enlisted the aid of Botswana's unofficial hero, a young woman by the name of Kagiso. Together they intercepted The Hunt and managed to destroy the plans rather than allow them to be used by the Witch Doctor.

Tsholofelo and Kagiso continued their relationship in a professional and personal manner, falling in love and eventually marrying. Tsholofelo pursued his research and developed the parhelion bodysuit while Kagiso became Peacemaker and fought crime in the major cities. After the birth of their first child, Kagiso retired from the 'hero game' and concentrated on being a mother. And soon they were blessed by twins.

But tragedy returned to the Tsholofelo family. At twenty-two, their eldest son contracted HIV and died within two years leaving behind a South African wife who was also infected. Kagiso organised the family back into the public arena where she once again became Peacemaker and campaigned for more information and assistance with HIV and AIDS. Tsholofelo began to create more parhelion suits for his family and they soon became known across Africa as a superhero family.

In 2003 the Tsholofelo family organised a conference on uberhuman affairs in Africa which led to the formation of Africa Force. Tsholofelo is the unofficial brains of the various Forces and provides them with technology and equipment with which they can provide security and assistance to the African people.

Dr Katlego Tsholofelo invented the Parhelion Bodysuit with finances from the United States to be used in the development of new mining practices for Botswana's growing diamond industry. He has adapted his original design for use by the Africa Force Five team, including himself. The bodysuit increases the wearer's strength, provides limited flight capabilities and a protective force field. Tsholofelo has further adapted his own suit so that it also increases his reaction time and is able to project a force field to grasp opponents, create force walls and even deliver an earth-shattering groundstrike.

Without his bodysuit, Dr Katlego Tsholofelo is a regular human, although he is a genius.

Members of Africa Force Five all wear a standard uniform which is a skintight blue costume with light grey panels on the sides of the legs and arms, a darker grey for their gloves, boots and mask; and a black belt which displays the team logo. Each member also carries a concealed communicator in their ear.  Tsholofelo tends to wear his lab coat while in his Parhelion identity as a reminder that there are probably better things that he should be doing rather than gallivanting across the country fighting 'villains'.

Out of costume, Dr Tsholofelo can usually be found wearing a long white lab coat over casual clothes. He almost always carries a pen or two behind his ears and wears thick-rimmed glasses. He is always busy and seems distracted even when he is directly talking to someone.