Coming up on House of Zwide… Tsholofelo Matshaba as Maria, Mampho’s mother who returns with her.

Here’s a portrait:Maria was born and raised in the Vaal in a super traditional family who didn’t invest much in her education.

She was just supposed to find a husband who would take care of her, and she did exactly that.

Maria got married and had two children, Mampho and a younger son, Kevin. But Mampho was always a troublemaker – since childhood. She was always too intelligent for her own good and Maria’s husband used that as the perfect excuse to abscond from his family and leave them high and dry.

Maria had to raise her two children alone, constantly clashing with the free-spirited Mampho. Back then, Maria ran a small sewing business and one day, Mampho stole money from her mother.