Mzansi Magic demanded actress Deli Malinga’s return to Umkhokha: The Curse as fan-favourite character Mamzobe.

This is after isiZulu publication Isolezwe reported that Uzalo actress Baby Cele might replace Malinga as Mamzobe in the faith-based telenovela.

Sources from production confirmed to Zimoja that the big bosses at the channel did not want to take the risk of losing ratings, even though producers thought they could continue the show without Malinga.
 

 

 

 

It is believed that money was one of the main reasons why Malinga was leaving the show. “She was not getting what she thought she deserved- but now that she renegotiated, it is going to be a different game,” added the source.

The publication adds that M-Net head of channel Nomsa Piliso confirmed that they met with Malinga: “We discussed the issue with her but are not sure what she has decided yet,” she added.

The Broadcasting Research Council of South Africa (BRCSA) September 2023 figures revealed that Umkhokha: The Curse was now the most-watched TV show on DStv with 933 256 viewers.

The South African reached out to actress Deli Malinga who was not available for a comment at the time of publishing this article.

ALSO READ: Actress Deli Malinga is not leaving ‘Umkhokha: The Curse’ – Report

‘UMKHOKHA: THE CURSE’: NOVEMBER SPOILERS
The TVSA Umkhokha: The Curse November teasers reveal that Mamzobe’s witchcraft will succeed in killing an unborn baby.

Wednesday, 8 November teaser reads: “MaMzobe’s witchcraft succeeds, and the baby dies.”

Though the teasers don’t reveal whose baby will die as both MaBusi (Hope Mbhele) and Nokubonga (Siphelele Luthuli) are pregnant, we can’t predict Mamzobe will regret killing the baby.

Mamzobe plans to kill MaBusi’s baby as she wants Nokubonga’s baby to be the heir to the family’s church like her late son, Mlungisi (Nkululeko Mchunu).

Viewers of the telenovela predict that Nokubonga’s baby will die instead, the headline for the teaser reads: “The Great Mistake”

Coming up on Smoke&Mirrors this week
Monday 27 November 2023
Episode 161

 

Emnyameni welcomes back its prodigal daughter who returns with a colourful story. Mandla has money problems – too many money problems! Sakhile finds a surprise visitor at his home who just won’t leave.
Tuesday 28 November 2023
Episode 162
Caesar returns with gifts for Virginia, and it only intensifies her anger and suspicions. Nomeva asks Thandiswa about what happened between her and Nthabiseng, and Thandiswa decides to tell the truth.
Wednesday 29 November 2023
Episode 163
Thandiswa admits her mistake in Nthabiseng’s death to Nomeva, causing a moral dilemma when Nomeva keeps the truth from Sakhile. Mandla is devastated by the loss of a huge sum of money.
Thursday 30 November 2023
Episode 164
Nomeva warns Thandiswa against messing around with Caesar. Khanyo tells Mzwakhe that there’s more money coming from Mandla.

Coming up on Isitha this week
Monday 27 November 2023
Episode 136
I am my brother’s keeper
Rebs is like a cat that licked the cream. Martha juggles Rebs and Nomcebo’s mansions, pretending to own them. Chuma tries to get Khaya cleaned up, but Khaya throws him out. Rebs blackmails Nhlanhla.
Tuesday 28 November 2023
Episode 137

Bullet for a bullet
Velaphi pleads with Rebs to let Mbuso hide out at the house. Nolitha tells Rebs that she needs a break from the Sokhulu family sabotage and she steals Gazi’s gun. Nolitha shows up at Nomcebo’s door.
Wednesday 29 November 2023
Episode 138
Toy guns and sellouts
Nolitha tries to shoot Nomcebo. Rebs makes calls to journalists and Gazi wonders what she plans to do. Martha gets an email promising to pay her for her views. Mbuso wants Nomcebo to dump Chuma.
Thursday 30 November 2023
Episode 139
Friends close, enemies closer
Khaya agrees to Rebs’ offer to buy food for the less fortunate from the Sokhulu shop, despite his misgivings about her. Chuma offers Mbuso a job. Martha makes a video exposing what happens in mansions.
Premiere episodes of Isitha: The Enemy air on e.tv from Mondays to Fridays at 21h30.

Coming up on House of Zwide this week
Monday 27 November 2023
Episode 96
Nkosi is humiliated by his new friends when he fails to invest in a business deal. Kgosi comes to visit him the next day and he manipulates Nkosi into taking the risk by challenging his masculinity.
Tuesday 28 November 2023
Episode 97

Faith reprimands Funani for letting Ona go off to start her own business, saying she might become a rival, but Funani quickly shuts Faith down for thinking that way.
Wednesday 29 November 2023
Episode 98
Nkosi meets up with Kgosi, eager to make more money, but Kgosi tells Nkosi he’ll need to invest a much larger sum. Nkosi approaches Funani, seeking to borrow some money so he can invest.
Thursday 30 November 2023
Episode 99
Isaac discovers that Rea hasn’t been meeting with her clients regularly at the Salon. Meanwhile tension is thick between Funani and Nkosi in the Zwide house

Jada Pinkett Smith has said she and Will Smith are concentrating on “healing the relationship” after revealing last week they had been separated for seven years.
Speaking to the Today Show on Sky’s US partner network NBC, Pinkett Smith, 52, said: “We are in a place now that we are in a deep healing space.

“And we are really concentrating on healing the relationship between us…

“We are working very hard at bringing our relationship together, back to a life partnership.”

 

 

 

“He can’t be this perfect idealised husband. I have to be able to accept him for the human he is,” she added.

“He has to accept me for the human I am. And we want to love each other there.”
She also indicated that the couple may live together again in the future.She also agreed with presenter Hoda Kotb when asked whether the couple could live together in the same house again.

As part of publicity for her book Worthy, Pinkett Smith previously revealed she had considered a legal divorce but said she could not go through with it. She also said the couple are living separately.”I made a promise that there will never be a reason for us to get a divorce. We will work through whatever and I just haven’t been able to break that promise,” she told NBC last week.

Meanwhile, Will Smith responded to Pinkett Smith’s claims, telling The New York Times that his wife’s memoir “kind of woke him up”