On
Rhythm City in September 2008:
Monday 1 September 2008Episode 301To S'bu and Lucilla's horror, Miles announces he will be leaving the hospital in the next few days. They are caught between a rock and a hard place about coming clean with the truth about what's happened since the car accident.
Lucilla has a bad feeling about some of the decor David has had put in the house. Tensions arise when David rebuffs her and refuses to deal with an issue around Kop's competence.
Tshidi ends her relationship with Mandla.
S'bu and Gail amp themselves up for their meeting with Tumi, optimistic that she'll sign with Hustle, but David has other ideas.
Tuesday 2 September 2008Episode 302S'bu and Gail are left to pick up the pieces following the news they've lost Tumi to Redemption. S'bu begins to doubt whether he's got what it takes to be a record producer, while Gail decides Bernard's betrayal is grounds to call it quits with the relationship.
Tshidi learns that Mandla's aunt is no longer in a position to take care of her nephew and that he has nowhere to go for help.
The cleansing ceremony is performed at David's new home, but Lucilla is left guessing as to what's motivating David on his new quest for cultural sensitivity. She's growing more irritated with Kop in his capacity as her driver.
Wednesday 3 September 2008Episode 303Tshidi is locked in conflict with her family about Mandla's staying in the household. She finds out that her mother thinks he's HIV positive and that's why she's against it. This makes her even more furious.
David convinces Ziyanda to perform a cleansing ceremony on him, to help rid him of his demons. Lucilla begs David to get rid of Kop.
Miles insists on leaving the hospital. S'bu takes Miles home and soon realises he's not going to be able to keep up the lies. He's going to have to tell him the whole truth.
Thursday 4 September 2008Episode 304David has his personal cleansing ceremony with Ziyanda, but is he truly cleansed? Ziyanda herself isn't so sure.
Now Miles is back at home, S'bu finds it harder to maintain his deception. Finally, Miles demands to know the truth, putting S'bu in a situation he's tried to avoid for weeks.
Tshidi, still determined to find a decent place for Mandla to spend his dying days, tells Stone about the money she got from Star Struck. He, in turn, thinks of the perfect solution to Mandla's housing problem - but convincing his parents is another task.
Friday 5 September 2008Episode 305Miles asks Lucilla for a meeting at which, in the absence of S'bu and Gail, he asks her to give him another chance. She refuses. Kop says something that causes Miles to challenge S'bu to tell him the whole truth.
At last S'bu reveals that during Miles' coma, Lucilla used her power of attorney to sell Redemption to David Genaro.
Mamokete and Kop agree to build the extra room - supposedly with the help of Stone's "savings" - and to let Mandla move in.
Connie and Diphuka leave the Genaro household without explanation.
Lucilla removes the masks that David placed on the walls of the living room.
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Monday 8 September 2008Episode 306It's the big day of constructing the spare room at the Khuse home, and everyone pitches in. The boys, with expert help from Cassius, Puleng's cousin, are doing the labour, with the girls providing food. Cassius' arrival inspires an idea, and before she knows it, Mpumi has a date to the matric dance.
Miles, in an effort to assert himself, confronts David. Kop tells Lucilla he'd like to spend some time looking after Miles.
The attraction between Tshidi and Siya continues to smoulder.
Tuesday 9 September 2008Episode 307S'bu and Gail struggle to find real talent and just as they thought all was lost, Bongani shows up and proves that crooks are also talented. S'bu is not the only one who spots Bongani. Bernard is also keeping a watchful eye.
Miles wants his company back and will stop at nothing to achieve that.
After all the hard work, Mandla's room is done. All the men who put in extra hours are finally rewarded when Mamokete prepares a lavish spread for them. Mandla is very grateful to the Khuses for opening their home to him.
Stone is not keen on going to Charlotte's matric dance, while Fats makes it clear he doesn't want to be Mpumi's date.
Wednesday 10 September 2008Episode 308Gail can't believe S'bu is so easily willing to dismiss Bongani's obvious talent, but S'bu can't look past the fact that the rapper is an ex-con.
Miles is pressing ahead with legal action against David, who confides to Lucilla he's got an ace up his sleeve in case things somehow play against their interests.
Tshidi helps Mandla settle into the newly completed back room at the Khuses. Tshidi is still puzzling over why Siya finds Mandla a threat.
It's action stations as the girls scramble to find Mpumi another date to the matric dance.
Thursday 11 September 2008Episode 309Fats is the obvious candidate for Mpumi's date to her matric dance, but he has other ideas.
Bernard woos Bongani. Tshidi is upset that her friends' matric dance clashes with her big Star Struck! presentation. She wants Mandla to attend, but no one is available to take him. Instead, she sings her song to him and he confesses to having romantic feelings for her.
S'bu is extremely concerned about Miles' mental health.
Lucilla offers to pay Kop's salary for six months while he helps Miles with his recuperation.
Bernard realises David just signed Tumi to thwart Hustle. He's furious and challenges him.
Friday 12 September 2008Episode 310Bongani seems to be playing both ends - S'bu and Hustle on the one hand, David and Redemption on the other - against the middle. Miles decides he can force David against the ropes by threatening to take his story to the media.
Tshidi prepares for her final heat that will determine whether she'll be one of the 10 contestants in Star Struck! Sis Bee brings Mandla to her performance.
Fats, who started with utter cynicism about the matric dance to which he has been coerced to take Mpumi, is challenged to be as charming as he's capable … and sweeps the girl off her feet.
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Monday 15 September 2008Episode 311Since Tshidi last sang at the Star Struck! qualifier, her world has turned upside down.
S'bu is feeling defeated at the realisation that without an artist, or start up capital, Hustle is doomed. Bongani is being head hunted by David and Bernard, and there's nothing S'bu can do about it. David is on a mission to bring the Vilakazis to their knees.
After the threat that Miles made, he's set up an appointment to meet him - with all the incriminating photos of Miles' sordid affair with Sunay.
Tuesday 16 September 2008Episode 312S'bu apprehends a burglar in the Vilakazi home - only to discover that it's Bongani. He comes up with a plan that has the rapper making a full confession on tape that S'bu will hand over to the police if Bongani doesn't sign a contract with Hustle.
Mandla's condition is obviously deteriorating and Sis Bee confides in Mamokete that he doesn't have much longer to live. Lucilla is having difficulty adjusting to her new life with David. They discuss the nature of their relationship.
Wednesday 17 September 2008Episode 313Miles is in his own personal hell as he deals with the fact that he betrayed his son.
S'bu is also preoccupied by his immediate need to raise some R250 000 to record Bongani's first album. He sets about looking for investors and finds one in an unlikely place. With one week to go before Star Struck! starts broadcast, the girls insist it's time for Tshidi to tell her parents what's going on.
What's the deal between Stone and Charlotte? Stone gives the boys the impression he and Charlotte are getting it on in the bedroom, while Charlotte makes it clear to the girls that their relationship is very innocent. Diphuka is back and ready to set Jozi on fire.
Thursday 18 September 2008Episode 314Mandla makes a recovery from his attack, but Sis Bee makes it clear the end is near.
Kop and Mamokete become concerned about the effect his death will have on Tshidi, and wonder whether it wouldn't be better to move him to a hospital.
Siya negotiates with Suffocate and Fats with regard to the Kilowatt Club hosting the live broadcasts of Star Struck! Stone is still doing his best to avoid being left alone with his bride-to-be. Kop is concerned about Miles' mental health.
S'bu has a dynamic idea to save costs on the recording of Bongani's album. Diphuka gets a lesson from Lucilla about the realities of life in the big city, but she's not beaten just yet.
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Friday 19 September 2008Episode 315Diphuka gives a worried Lucilla a vivid account of her night out on the town.
A paranoid Miles is convinced he's being spied on.
Tshidi hopelessly entertains the possibility of going to her matric dance with Mandla. She is determined to keep him alive for as long as possible, but he has other ideas.
Bongani is keen to record with S'bu until he sees his humble, homemade studio. Bernard and David plot to sabotage S'bu's plans.
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Monday 22 September 2008Episode 316After some protest from Bongani, S'bu manages to get his new artist to lay down his first new track. His spirits are dampened when he learns he's in danger of losing his beats from the producer with whom he's in business.
Miles is growing increasingly paranoid about strangers in the house and cameras filming him everywhere.
Tshidi agonizes over the decision to be party to Mandla's request to help him end his life.
Lucilla discovers Diphuka has lied to her mother about being in Jozi.
Tuesday 23 September 2008Episode 317Everyone is trying to deal with the aftermath of Mandla's death, especially Tshidi who is psychologically and emotionally distraught.
S'bu has, once again, been outmanoeuvred by David.
Mandla's aunt wants to have an ancestral ritual to remove his spirit from the house. Mamokete is extremely uncomfortable and forbids it.
David demands of Lucilla that the Diphuka situation be resolved.
Wednesday 24 September 2008Episode 318Bongani reappears with a bag stuffed with money that he hands over to S'bu and Gail, telling them they should use it to buy the beats they need to make the album with him. S'bu is appalled and demands to know where the R37 000 came from.
Although Mamokete refuses to have a "pagan" ceremony take place in her house to speed Mandla's spirit on its way to the ancestors, Tshidi finds an ally in her father. The ceremony duly takes place. Despite this, she still feels wracked by guilt, and confesses to Siya.
Diphuka propositions an interested David. She believes she has a lot to offer Redemption.
Thursday 25 September 2008Episode 319Suffociate persuades S'bu - citing his own history - that it is possible to build an honest business on seed money from a dubious source. S'bu buys the beats from the original producer and makes a shock announcement to Bongani: until the album is finished, he has to live at the Vilakazi home.
Tshidi hears she's one of the contestants who will sing during the debut Episode of Star Struck! broadcast live in a week's time.
When Charlotte hears from Tshidi that Stone was supposed to have spoken to her about inviting her parents to lunch, she confronts him.
That night, Stone is alone at the Kilowatt Club when he is approached by a gay guy. David changes his mind and tells Lucilla that Diphuka can stay with them.
Friday 26 September 2008Episode 320Bongani and S'bu are at constant loggerheads as it becomes clear that there is no love lost between them. Stone is horrified when he realises that the lunch between Charlotte's family and his own is a probable precursor to negotiations for lobola.
Tshidi, in light of her parents' ignorance, freaks out when Siya warns her that a TV crew will be paying her family a visit.
David denies that his request Bernard babysit Diphuka is merely a cover for her to spy on him. In fact, to prove how much he trusts Bernard, David reveals he is going to entrust the re-launch of Lucilla's musical career to him.
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Monday 29 September 2008Episode 321After Bongani tells Gail he feels like he's a prisoner, even though he's out of jail, she talks to S'bu, advising he take it easy with the artist because it's stifling his creativity.
The Khuses refuse to let Tshidi participate in Star Struck! even though there's money to be made. Tshidi is angry when she realises Siya deliberately sent the TV crew to film her and her family to get better reactions.
Stone is still uncomfortable about going public about his engagement to Charlotte. She thinks he's getting cold feet. Manny encourages Miles to tell Lucilla how he really feels about her.
Tuesday 30 September 2008Episode 322S'bu is getting more and more worried about the lack of progress with the album because of Bongani's growing resentment over being held captive by their arrangement. Gail steps in to intervene with some surprising results. Stone accidentally ends up spilling the beans about his secret engagement to Charlotte, and the news spreads like wildfire. David is less than pleased when Bernard questions the wisdom of backing Lucilla as their primary artist.