6 June 2022
Lingashoni S1
Created by Stained Glass (The Wife), Lingashoni is a telenovela about a poverty-stricken farm worker (two-time SAFTA winner Patrick Mofokeng from Heartlines) who returns to his former life as a high-flying businessman after a decade-long memory loss.
Now he’ll have to juggle caring for his farm family while reconnecting with his children and estranged first wife Puleng (SAFTA winner Thuli Thabethe from City Ses’la), who has since started a new life with the family driver (Thato Molamu).
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