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In the three episodes of The Wife that dropped today, there were three deaths. At the centre of all three was feisty fan favourite Mandisa (Zikhona Sodlaka), whose husband Nqoba Zulu (Abdul Khoza) was buried the week before. As Mandisa, Zikhona was nominated for Best Female Actor at the 2022 DStv Mzansi Viewers’ Choice Awards and Best […]
The third season of The Wife set a new four-day viewing record for Showmax when it launched last Thursday. This week’s new episodes are again trending at #1 on Twitter, in part over the demise of one of the telenovela’s most celebrated and loved characters: Nqoba Zulu, played by the multi-talented actor Abdul Khoza. Fans of The Wife continuously […]
Khanyi Mbau (Unmarried, Happiness Ever After) has landed the biggest role of her career: she’s joining the record-breaking Showmax Original telenovela, The Wife, in the Season 2 lead role of Zandile The Resolute, playing the wife of Nkosana (fan-favourite Mondli Makhoba), the leader of the Zulu brothers’ crime family. Eagle-eyed fans of the hit show, which has topped […]
Showmax’s first telenovela, The Wife, has broken Uthando Lodumo’s record for the most first-day views of all-time on Showmax, as well as Devilsdorp’s record for the most hours watched within four days of launch, outperforming the launch of any film or series on Showmax ever, including the likes of Game of Thrones, The Real Housewives of Durban and The River. Inspired […]
The Johannesburg Review of Books calls Dudu Busani-Dube “a publishing phenomenon.” She’s become the face of self-publishing in South Africa, having topped the Exclusive Books charts, and landed four books simultaneously in the Nielsen Bookscan SA bestseller list for July 2021. And that was before Showmax announced they were adapting the series of books that made […]