His mother, Nombulelo Makhubu, told the Truth and Reconciliation Commission that she received a letter from him from Nigeria in 1978, but that she had not heard from him since.
[6] Mbuyisa was one of a number of South African activists given refuge in Nigeria immediately following the Soweto incident.
He was one of three who were settled in a boarding high school in South-Western Nigeria - Federal Government College, during the 1976–1977 academic year.
[7] In 2013, claims emerged that a man, Victor Vinnetou, imprisoned in Canada for the previous eight years on immigration charges was Makhubu.
[11][2] The same year, a four-episode documentary titled Through The Cracks, which was released on the 44th anniversary of the uprising on 16 June 2020, provided some previously untold details about Makhubu's life.