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Nakedi Ribane

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Nakedi Ribane is a South African actress, author, fashion and beauty editor, co-owner of a modelling agency and former model best known for hosting the SABC2 talk show Motswako The Mix.

She is better known to international audiences for her role as Nyasa Mathiba in the teen adventure series African Skies, which aired in the USA from 1992-1994.

She also starred as matriarch Nomsa Mthetho in the Mzansi Magic telenovela Inkaba, from 2012-2013.

Born in Ga-Sekhukhuni and raised in Mamelodi outside Pretoria, Nakedi started her modeling career in the early 80s and advanced quickly to become one of South Africa's top models of her era.

She began acting in the late 80s whilst still a model and hs since appeared in numerous local and international television series, including Molo Fish, Soul City and the mini-series Ekhaya: A Family Chronicle (1997) and Human Cargo (2004).

Nakedi has also acted in the feature films Waati (1995) and The Long Run (2000), among others.

In theatre, she won the 2002 FNB Best Supporting Actress award for her role as Noria in an adaptation of Zakes Mda's novel Ways of Dying.

She published her first book - Beauty ... A Black Perspective - in September, 2006.

She played the leading role of Linda Mokoena, the secretive wife of a wealthy Xhosa doctor - in the SABC2 mini-series Noah's Ark, from July to August, 2008.


Nakedi as Linda Mokoena in Noah's Ark (2008)


Television Roles

Show

Character

Nomsa Mthetho

Mme Puleng (as Adv Nakedi Ribane)

Host - Herself

Linda Mokoena

Moyikami

Ms Kwena


LATEST ARTICLES

New on TV today: Friday 1 November 2024

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Saras & Kumud Teasers - November 2024

An intro to this comeback kid that turned out to be a big break for both series stars.


Evil Affairs Teasers - November 2024

Series finale! Visharpi brings Malik and his army to Sarpali, where Nikki and the Naags prepare for battle.


My Desire Teasers - November 2024

Aditya schemes to murder Arjun with a scorpion and disguise it as a natural death.


Kelders van Geheime Teasers - November 2024

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New on TV today: Thursday 31 October 2024

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Anupama Teasers - November 2024

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Imlie Teasers - November 2024

Series finale! Anjali reveals her plan to kill Imlie and the threat to Surya's life.


Muvhango Teasers - November 2024

A body at the construction site, Susan has flashbacks and Rendani announces her ownership of Intimate Lounge.


Soulmates Teasers - November 2024

Renuka worries about Roshni's intentions after he gives her a lot of money to fund her business.

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