This is a very bold statement considering the fact that my love and constant pursuit for money is always the first and the last thing on my mind every night (Yep. Everyone that knows me knows that I consider my sisters the best thing to ever happen to me, and I wouldn’t trade them for anything! Even a million dollars cash. While the oldest is firm, a perfectionist and loyal follower of all things involving history (she could give you a blow-by-blow account of the Royal family in one breath), the arts and old school RnB music, the other is a free-spirited 18year-old at heart, who loves everything that involves a lot of people, a lot of eating, a lot of drinking, basically a lot of everything! I’ve made the substantiated conclusion that in her previous life she was either a groupie or a hippie (your choice sis).īut I love them to bits. Wiseman Mncube takes over from Bonko Khoza as Mqhele, whose love story with Hlomu remains complicated.Īfter you’ve watched all episodes of Season 1, Season 2 and Season 3 of The Wife, binge-watch The Wife: Behind The Veil.I have 2 sisters, both older than me and both very different from each other. The season kicks off with Naledi, played by Gaisang K Noge, Qhawe’s love, having been kidnapped and the Zulu brothers’ crimes making front-page news.

The show trended at the top of Twitter every Thursday during its run, for 13 consecutive weeks. All episodes of Seasons 1-3 are now streaming. Produced by Stained Glass, Season 1 of The Wife opened to rave reviews in November 2021, becoming the most-watched launch on Showmax ever.

The role of Zandile, the fierce matriarch of the Zulu family, is played by Khanyi Mbau (Happiness is a Four-Letter Word) and Mondli Makhoba (Umkhokha) reprises his role as Nkosana, the eldest Zulu brother in The Wife. Season 2 is inspired by the follow-up novel, Zandile the Resolute. Her love interest, Mqhele, is played by Bonko Khoza, who burst onto the acting scene as Jabz in the multi-award-winning film Necktie Youth and has since appeared in the likes of Professionals and the Emmy-nominated Roots.

Rising star Mbalenhle Mavimbela (Skeem Saam, Isipho) plays “Hlomu the wife”, the journalist who falls in love with a taxi driver, not realising that when you marry a man, you marry his secrets. Season 1 is inspired by the novel Hlomu the Wife, a bestseller by Dudu Busani-Dube. The Wife series is a Showmax Original telenovela that follows the lives of the eight Zulu brothers, a formidable crime family, through the eyes of the women they marry.

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