Petros Sipho Sibusiso Mkhize was born and raised in Macambini, a rural area in KwaZulu-Natal. Little is documented about his early life, but like many young African men of his generation, Mkhize would have grown up in a society already defined by racial segregation and the early structures of what would become formal apartheid.

The City of Matlosana Local Municipality is located in the Dr Kenneth Kaunda District of North West Province, South Africa.

Dikkie Mxolisi Johannes Jacobs, an active member of a youth organisation in Upington, Northern Cape, was detained on 15 June 1986 during a wider pre-June 16, 1976 security crackdown under the state of emergency. The prison authorities stated that he was found hanged in his prison cell on 22 October 1986, after 129 days in detention. Fellow detainees said that Jacobs had been strong and in good spirits when they last saw him seven hours before his death.

Moorreesburg is a tranquil and friendly little town, about 100 kilometres from Cape Town. The land has been used for large-scale wheat farming for most of its history and has become known as: 'the breadbasket', of South Africa.

It is located 100 km from Cape Town beneath the Kogelberg Mountains on the scenic R44 ocean drive between Pringle Bay