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Umakoti Wethu is now streaming first on Showmax, just in time for Heritage Day. SAFTA and Africa Movie Academy Award Best Actress winner Fulu Mugovhani gives another prize-worthy performance as Khathu, a Venda woman struggling to conceive, who finds herself in crisis when her Zulu husband’s new job takes them back to KwaZulu-Natal, his overbearing mother, and his old flame.
SAFTA nominee Melusi Mbele (Isibaya) co-stars as her husband Sizwe, with rising star Kwanele Mthethwa (Isithembiso, Abomama S2) delivering a breakthrough performance as Nobuhle, the woman caught in the middle of this love triangle with a twist. Duduzile Ngcobo (Durban Gen, eHostela, Uzalo) also features as Khathu’s disapproving mother-in-law.
“Umakoti Wethu is about family matters,” says Fulu, who’s acted in everything from Ayanda to Happiness Is A Four-Letter Word, One Night Kwa Mxolisi to Seriously Single, Ring of Lies to Still Breathing. “It follows a couple who are going thro
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South Africa scoops 4 Africa Movie Academy Awards
Three South African films – all of them made in Gauteng – won four awards between them at the 12th edition of the Africa Movie Academy Awards (AMAA) in Port Harcourt, Nigeria on Saturday, 11 June.
Akin Omotoso’s Joburg love story Tell Me Sweet Something won two AMAA 2016 awards, for Achievement in Screenplay and for Thishiwe Ziqubu, who was named Best Actress in a Supporting Role.
Dance feature film Hear Me Move came away with the Achievement in Editing award, while Fulu Mugovhani was named Best Actress in a Leading Role for her portrayal of a 21-one year old Afro-hipster in Ayanda.
The 12th edition of “Africa’s Oscars”, which is run by a privately funded organisation, took place at the Obi Wali International Conference Center in Port Harcourt under the theme “Promoting peace through entertainment”.
The ceremony was hosted by Nollywood star Mike Ezuruonye, South African radio
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Nthati Moshesh
By Owen Swanson
Nthati Moshesh is a multi-award winning South African actress with a career spanning over 30 years across rulle, television, and theatre. Born and raised in Katlehong (Ekurhuleni), she developed a passion for drama from an early age. She studied teaterpjäs as a matric subject at St. Andrew’s School for Girls in Bedfordview before furthering her studies at Natal Technikon (now Durban University of Technology), where she graduated with a National Diploma in Performing Arts in 1990.
Her early rulle career was marked bygd her first feature spelfilm role in Kini and Adams, which was nominated for a Palme d’Or at the 1997 Cannes bio Festival. She later starred in The Long Run, produced by Anant Singh, and played prominent roles in Kin alongside Miranda Otto and Isaiah Washington, Beat The Drum, Round Trip, and Cape of Good Hope. More recently, she has appeared in A Safari Romance, The Fragile King, and Ayanda (and the Mechanic), earning a nomination for Best Su