The first rule of the entertainment industry is “give the people what they want”, and the people – Gomora Mzansi viewers – wanted Phumlani gone. The Gomora writers listened. Why Phumlani had to die The character Phumlani Ndaba (real name Buyile Mdladla) was introduced to the Seriti Films production, Gomora, in November 2011. To everyone, … Read more
Mzansi Magic – DStv channel 161 – is home to South African produced soapies. Since the launch of the channel in 2010, we have come to know Mkabayi Zungu, Queen Qondi, Queen Mosadi, Claudia Motaung, Lindiwe Dikana, Harriet Khoza and Thathi Ndaba. Mzansi Magic’s leading ladies – the queens of drama – all possess beauty, … Read more
In a normal world, it is the cheating husband’s mistress who gets an abortion when the results of their adultery come to bite them. Keen to conceal his sin, the unfaithful husband will sell his back teeth just to fund the rushed abortion This week on Gomora, abortion is the topic but it is not … Read more
When her husband Mbongeni was murdered, Thathi Ndaba (real name Katlego Danke) lost everything, she went from a Sandton mansion, Mercedes Benzes to sleeping in her childhood bedroom, back in Gomora, Alex Township. Thathi seemed like a broken tree branch, tossed from one river bank to the other, with no control over her own life. … Read more
If Kerry Washington had been on Gomora, she would have told Mam Sonto not to worry because, “it’s handled”. But Kerry Washington was 12,000km away in America and, in her place, as The Fixer, was Katlego Danke, Thathi Ndaba on Gomora. And boy did she come through for her mother when she needed her most. … Read more
Thathi Ndaba has been the biggest opponent of Ntokozo and Buhle’s teenage love affair from day one. Gladys too was determined to keep the two youngsters apart, especially after she walked in on Ntokozo and Buhle, half naked and on the brink of statutory rape mixed with incest – kind of. Ntokozo (real name Ntobeko … Read more
Langa is the likeable child in the dysfunctional Ndaba family. In their Sandton days, Only Langa could be bothered to remember the helper’s name while father Mbongeni was sleeping with is secretary if not defrauding investors, sister Buhle was essentially the miniature version of her self-centred and materialistic mother, Thathi. If the screenwriters wanted to … Read more
In sixteen years of vat en sit – sorry, let me cut out the euphemisms – in sixteen years of living in sin with his baby mama, Sbonga has cheated numerous times on Pretty. Speaking to his new BFF, Mazet, Sbonga explained his infidelity as something that “began with harmless flirting.” I guess it’s true … Read more
Pretty Molefe and her baby daddy, Sbonga (real name Khaya Mthembu) have a fifteen year old daughter, Tshiamo (real name Lerato Mokoka). In their sixteen years of vat and sit, marriage hasn’t come up — at least not that I’ve heard. If Sbonga hasn’t put a ring on it, then it is possible — in … Read more
Rewind with me, all the way to the end of March 2020, just as the first Covid lockdown was declared, and we see Mam Sonto – real name Connie Chiume – the crime queen of Alex on one end of the city. In another part of the world, in Sandton, far away from the Gomora … Read more