As you may know,
iNkaba's ended after a run of a year. When the show first premiered on Mzansi Magic in March last year no-one was certain whether or not it would continue
for a
second season of new storylines once the first season wrapped. It depended on viewers and how well it did.
Clearly it hasn't been popular enough to land a comeback. A new telenovela will be taking over from it instead. iNkaba ends on Thursday, 14 March and will conclude all storylines. A new series called Isibaya takes over immediately, from Monday 18 March, and will also air Mondays to Thursdays at 20h30.
Filming for it started about two weeks ago and it's being produced by The Bomb Shelter, producers of Zone 14 and Yizo Yizo.
So what's it about? Another family feud.
When
iNkaba launched, series creator John Kani said that it had been inspired by the feuds in Romeo and Juliet and it seems Isibaya is too.
Here's a synopsis of what it's about:
Two young lovers, torn apart by a century old feud between two powerful families.
From a valley long divided by too few resources the bitter feud continues in Egoli, the city of gold as the Zungu’s seek to build their fortune.
The promise of riches and old cycles of revenge tears them apart but one man’s quest for reconciliation & peace leads them all to understand that they can prosper together.
On the East side of the Valley lives the Zungu’s, a household headed by charismatic and influential Mpiyakhe and his sister Mkabayi who run a successful taxi business.
Mkabayi runs the rural taxi yard; she is a fierce and powerful matriarch who has sworn herself to celibacy after the assassination of her betrothed when she was a young girl. She is loyal, traditional and under the tough exterior warm hearted. Mpiyakhe’s two rural wives run the Bhubusini compound.
Mpiyakhe lives in Soweto with his fourth wife, Iris, a beautiful but scheming and manipulative woman, she has no children but is the stepmother to Mpiyakhe’s two children - Thandeka and Jabu - from his first wife, who died in a taxi clash 14 years back. Mpiyakhe runs the Taxi business and is chairman of the East Side taxi association.
On the West side lives Samson Ndlovu’s family, they too operate a big taxi business, but are less successful than Mpiyakhe. Samson is a bitter man, but hides under a veneer of tradition; his brother Mandla is bloodthirsty and wants vengeance on the Zungus.
Can their love survive the bitter feuds that surround them? Will their families tear them apart or will their love triumph in the end?
What do you think? Are you intrigued or is it too similar to iNkaba?