UMurphy Morobe ungumuntu oqopha umlando oqhamuka enhlanganweni elwa nobandlululo yaseNingizimu Afrika. Uqale isikole e-Ermelo Morobe, waqeda isikole samabanga aphansi eSoweto wabe eseya e-Orlando North Secondary School nase-Isaacson High School. Ngenkathi esafunda esikoleni esiphakeme waba nentshisekelo kwezepolitiki nomlando. Ngo-1972 uMorobe waba yingxenye yeSouth African Student's Movement (SASM). Izinto ezibalulekile kuye kwakuwubumbano nentuthuko yomphakathi. Amalungu amaningi e-SASM aboshwa ngo-1973 futhi baba buthaka impela. Ngo-1974 uMorobe wasiza ngokwakhiwa kabusha kwe-SASM, wabe esebekwa ngumgcinimafa ngabo. Ngokuhamba kwesikhathi waba ngomunye wabaholi babafundi beSoweto Uprising ngoJuni, 1976. Ngenxa yeqhaza lakhe lokuvukela umbuso, wahlala iminyaka emithathu ejele eRobben Island. Wagwetshwa isikhathi sakhe ehambisana nabanye abaholi babafundi. Ubephinde abe phakathi kweziboshwa sezepolitiki zaseNingizimu Afrika kanye nomholi we-African National Congress uNelson Mandela. Wadedelwa ngoMeyi 1982. Ngemuva kokukhululwa ejele, wabuyela kwezepolitiki, wazibandakanya namaqembu amaningi, okubandakanya: iCongress of South African Student (COSAS), General and Allied Worker's Union futhi wasiza ekwakheni i-United Democratic Front (South Africa) (UDF) in 1983. Ngo-1994 uMorobe waba nguSihlalo kanye no-CEO weKhomishini Yezimali Nezimali eNingizimu Afrika.