Tonight (Wednesday 12 November) sees the arrival of a new
RC character: Nonti Ndaba, played by Refiloe Seseane.
Nonti's the new Redemption marketing and PR manager who's been hired to replace Bernard.
Headhunted by David, Nonti used to run her own successful promotional company and sold it to earn herself mega bucks. Since then and now she's lived the life of a wealthy consultant and David's managed to lure her to Redemption to kick start a new marketing strategy for the company.
Nonti's a thorough, level headed type and believes in transparency for all her business transactions - she's also a workaholic who's more comfortable with business relationships than with her personal liasons.
She arrives at Redemption amidst swirling undercurrents: David's on a vendetta against Bernie. He (unfairly) blames and berates him for the very public degradation of his lover Lu during the debut performance of her re-launch into the music business - a guest celeb spot on live reality TV talent contest, Star Struck!
He also holds Bernie personally accountable for the financial and contractual mess over rapper Bongani. The former jailbird's walked out in the middle of recording an album and the filming of a lucrative TV commercial for an alco-pop product, to rejoin new record label Hustle - founded by S'bu Vilakazi (Lungil Radu), with the help of his dad, Miles and Gail October.
Bernie refuses to resign, hanging in for severence pay package. David makes good on his promise to make the marketing man's life a misery: apart from the mocking verbal abuse, he also embarks on a campaign of assigning demeaning, degrading, menial tasks - all intended to belittle Bernie's dignity and status. Bernie, in effect, becomes Nonti's personal assistant.
Nonti's aware of all these ins and outs but is firmly focused on her first brief from David: to resurrect Lu's music career.
As she works towards doing this she'll also co-produce a new product: a complication album featuring a combo of current clebes singing mixed duets, in conjunction with the late, great, Rachel Phakati, using newly discovered, previously unreleased, archived songs recorded by the gospel star.
Refiloe Seseane fast facts28-year old Refiloe's best known for her role as Dudu Kunene on Generations.
In January 2007 she left Johannesburg and relocated to Cape Town, to pursue a career in the corporate world - working as a business analyst.
She’s moved back to Jozi and brings her real life business experience to the role of Nonti.
Refiloe majored in Economics and Finance in her Bcom degree and graduated with a distinction in Economics. She is furthering her studies and hopes to have a doctorate degree in Economics.
While in Cape Town, she also volunteered as a mentor and tutor at TsiBA - an institution that provides free tertiary education to previously disadvantaged students to study a Bachelor of Business Administration degree.
Her career in the entertainment industry began in high school when she took part in various theatrical productions that earned her full colours in Drama and Public Speaking. At the age of 16, she landed the lead role of Dorothy in The Wiz, a modern rendition of the Wizard of Oz, staged at Wits University.
She's presented various TV lifestyle, entertainment and game shows. She has also presented various infomercials and corporate videos, and has featured in commercials.
In 2005, Refiloe represented South Africa at the annual Miss Africa International pageant held in Washington DC. The pageant focused on the empowerment of young women in Africa, focusing on the continent’s economic development through health, arts and culture, and education. Competing against 19 other young women, each representing a different country in Africa, she won the talent segment of the competition.
Her star sign is Aquarius and she enjoys reading, jogging and listening to music.