Aphiwe Menziwa was born in Mpumalanga and grew up in several different places including Gauteng, Eastern Cape and Western Cape. He attended Usasozo High School in Khayelitsha where he did Drama as an extra-mural. In 2009 he did a one-year course at The Independent Theatre Movement of South Africa (ITMSA) also known as Saturday Varsity, run by Abduragman Adams and Tauriq Jenkins. He is also involved in a community group named Uthando Iwekamva Lethu Arts Organisation (UKAO) in Khayelitsha.