Which of these do you think was the biggest scandal on the soapie this year?
1. Anzani was kidnapped and she slept with Dustbin Man
Phehello (aka Dustbin Man), hated the fact that his father loved his brother, Lerumo, more than him so he kidnapped Lerumo’s girlfriend and now wife, Anzani. Later, Lerumo needed a liver transplant and Anzani took a gamble by contacting Phehello and went on to sleep with him to secure a liver for Lerumo. It almost ended their relationship, but Lerumo lived and the pair reconciled and eventually got married. Even though it cost Anzani her chieftainship.
2. Dintle slept with Mangi and faked her pregnancy
Dintle wormed her way into Mangi’s life while he was still in prison. She heard Maletsatsi was starting bible studies for prisoners, so she signed up and made sure she was paired with Mangi. When that wasn’t enough she cooked up more lies so she could get private visits with him. She also got rid of Mangi’s drug mule ex, Ruby, and faked a pregnancy so Mangi could marry her while he was still in jail.
3. Lindiwe was a mean girl
The youngest Ngema girl, Lindiwe, started off by lying about acing a maths test only for her parents to find out that she failed and they grounded her. But they were never ready for what followed after that. Thanks to bad influences (namely Shoki), Lindiwe got involved in online bullying, blackmailed her brother, got into underage drinking and was even caught shoplifting. Her father almost sent her back to KZN.
Thembeka was just about to walk down the aisle with her dream Nyathi man, Quinton, when nurse Audrey’s boyfriend, Vuyo, showed up and tried to thwart her plans by blackmailing her about switching Jessica and Quinton’s baby’s DNA results. Thembeka didn’t even think twice about pushing Vuyo to his death over the railing and dumping his body in the river the next day.
5. Scelo dropped out of varsity
Scelo got so frustrated with his engineering course, he decided engineering wasn’t the career path he wished to follow. He called the company that awarded him with a bursary and cancelled it without consulting his parents. He planned to find a job and keep his dropping out a secret, but it didn’t quite work out that way. He finally came clean to his parents and not only did Mlu not speak to him, he kicked him out. Scelo also started dating Kitso much to his parents’ disapproval. He even got a credit card to try to impress her and even lived with her when his parents kicked him out.
6. Shakira burned down the prison and escaped
Things turned sour for Shakira behind bars and her only option was to escape. First she tried to embezzle money from Lucas, then Layla told her she was going to testify against her at the parole hearing. She got on Dimps bad side by banging Larissa’s head against a bed post and when she got into trouble for that she was caught seducing warden Vermeulen. Mama Ruth helped Shakira escape by starting a fire. Afterwards the prison assumed she died in the fire while she walked. During the fire, Lucas and Stokkies saved the lives of warden Wandile, they were then pardoned and released from prison.
7. Gontse returns home pregnant
Sparks started flying between Gloria’s daughter Gontse and Ndumiso (who rents a backroom on Gloria’s yard) when they had a business idea of importing clothes and beads between South Africa and Dubai (where Gontse was based at the time). One thing led to another and the pair ended up having a thing before Gontse left for Dubai only for Gontse to return pregnant.
Lucas blackmailed Eddie into writing a book about him but Eddie quickly got on his wrong side when he confronted him about the bad things he’d done in his past. Lucas then planted an evil seed in Eddie’s head by implying that he previously had an affair with Eddie’s wife, Maletsatsi. Lucas went on to seduce Maletsatsi during a bible study session in his hotel room after the lights went off due to “load shedding”.
9. Mlungisi’s ex-lover came back
Mlungisi was surprised when a woman from his past (Boitshoko) came looking for him at NFH and later went on to stalk his family. It turned out Mlungisi had an affair with Boitshoko for years while he was working in the mines even though he was already married to Zinzile. It was revealed that Mlungisi has a daughter (Omphile) with Boitshoko and she didn’t have long to live before she succumbed to cancer.
10. Quinton cheated on Thembeka
Thembeka made a huge mistake when she humiliated Dintle at her bridal shower because Dintle got her revenge by paying a stripper (Sinnamon) to sleep with Quinton at his bachelor party, and even got a photo as proof of his infidelity. As if that wasn’t enough, Quinton had an affair with Thembeka’s friend, Naledi, after he found out that Thembeka may have been behind the switching of his son’s DNA results.
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