Lungelo Mpangase, who played Poppy in Lingashoni, has been cast as Sambulo’s new love interest Xoli in Showmax’s telenovela The Wife.

Lungelo Mpangase, who plays Sambulo in The Wife season three, tells Sunday World that Sambulo is now more open and expressive, and feels more like a man with Xoli.

“Xoli is a very free-spirited person, she believes in her own rules and knows the power that she has. She’s not your typical submissive Zulu girl, but lives by her own rules and is very free sexually, hence she knows the power she has with her body,” said Mpangase.

Mpangase goes on to say that her character has connections with all of the other wives in the telenovela… She is not arrogant, but she is a tomboy in a seductive way.

“The difference between Xoli and Lungelo is that I am a ‘girly girl’ and Xoli is brave and intelligent. Xoli does things that I don’t think I would even dream of doing, she’s brave and out there, meanwhile, Lungelo is an introvert.”