Apart from being involved in politics most of his life, Ya Toivo was also a family man, many people wonder how he met his wife Vicki. Well, Seven months after his release from Robben Island prison, Adimba Toivo ya Toivo met Vicki at a rally, held by political activist Angela Davis, in New York in 1984. Vicki was an American labour lawyer. The two were initially drawn together by a mutual love of politics.