Modisegaarekwe Phekonyane was born in Bloemfontein, Mangaung where he completed his higher education. He was involved as an activist in the student uprising in 1976 and in 1977 in Bloemfontein – Mangaung where he was arrested and remanded in detention without trial. Modisegaarekwe was subjected to severe torture and interrogation for most of the day and night. He was finally sentenced to Robben Island for five years on 20th December 1977 at the age of 20yrs. He arrived on the Island on 14th February 1978 and was released in 1982.

On his release, he took up from where he left off before he was arrested and began to mobilize the masses toward the first democratic South Elections of 1994, which saw his former prison mate and one of his many mentors Mr. Nelson Mandela, elected to become the first Democratically Elected Black President. Modisegaarekwe then went back to school at the University of the Free State and was elected to the Student Representative Council (SRC). He qualified with a BA Degree majoring in Political Science and Public 139 Administration. 

Modisegaarekwe Phekonyane worked as a Marketing Co-coordinator for FABCOS; Bursary officer for UFS; Prison guide on Robben Island; Assistant Director for Constitutional Values – Free State Department of Education. He is a Motivational Speaker, Life Coach, and Youth Mentor; he is involved in Leadership and Management Development, is the CEO and founder of MP Innovations (Math and Science as problem solving mechanism) and MP Leadership Institute, he is a poet and an author.