As a child, his parents fled Rhodesia to settle in Canada and the United States during the Rhodesian Bush War. The family then moved back to their native Zimbabwe in 1980 and then to neighbouring South Africa in 1987. He was schooled at Michaelhouse in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands, where he matriculated from in 1992.
During his childhood, his parents fled Rhodesia to settle in Canada and the United States during the Rhodesian Bush War. The family later returned to their homeland of Zimbabwe in 1980 and then relocated to South Africa in 1987. He was educated at Michaelhouse in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands, where he graduated from in 1992.