Early Life
McBride's parents were schoolteachers. He was born in Addington Hospital and grew up in Wentworth, a racially segregated suburb about 11 km from Durban. He attended Fairvale High School in Wentworth and participated in extramural activities like rugby, karate, boxing, chess, Hockey and soccer. After he was beaten by an older boy in the neighbourhood, his father taught him martial arts. He was involved in many fights, but never joined a gang, largely because of the discipline of his parents. He became more and more involved in his father's business, a welding workshop. When older, while walking an employee home at night, he killed an attacker with his mother's pistol. He was also involved in the collection of payments from customers, and is said to have had many encounters with local gangs.
McBride obtained a BA in international politics from the University of South Africa in 2001, a B.Tech degree in policing from the Tshwane University of Technology in 2007 and a diploma in foreign relations from the Institute of Diplomacy & Foreign Relations Malaysia.
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