Mlungisi Mathe was born 14 July 1990 in Zonkizizwe is a South African actor. He is cast as Emkay on Skeem Saam, a soap opera broadcast on SABC1.
His character is loved despite being corrupt and a womanizer. Aside from acting, he is also a musician known by the stage name Skhandi Boy. Mlungisi Mathe was born on 14 July 1990 in Zonkizizwe, Katlehong near Johannesburg, South Africa. Before appearing on-screen, he participated in theaters productions. In the early days of his career, Mathe landed a role in John Kani and Wiston Ntshona’s theater piece titled The Island.
The popular Skeem Saam actor answered his ancestral calling and is practicing sangoma. Though, he’s still going through ukuthwasa and shared in an interview that “the journey was confusing”. “Fortunately, there are things I already knew and understood. Although it’s been hectic, lots of things were revealed to me. I found out about stuff I didn’t know about myself, stuff I didn’t understand from a younger age. I now understand why some things happened,”