The third season of The Wife set a new four-day viewing record for Showmax when it launched last Thursday.
This week’s new episodes are again trending at #1 on Twitter, in part over the demise of one of the telenovela's most celebrated and loved characters: Nqoba Zulu, played by the multi-talented actor Abdul Khoza.
Fans of The Wife continuously rave about Abdul’s performance as the hot-headed Zulu brother, describing him as being perfectly cast.
Abdul, born in KwaMashu in Durban, earned himself a DStv Mzansi Viewers’ Choice Favourite Actor Award for this iconic role earlier this year. He also took home his second Golden Horn when he won Best Supporting Actor in a Telenovela at the 2022 SAFTAs.
If you’ve been following the lives of the Zulu brothers from the beginning of the telenovela, the formidable crime family has come to feel like your family, too, right?
So saying goodbye to Nqoba was never going to be easy, and it certainly has not been easy for Abdul's co-stars who have built a strong bond with him from the very beginning of this journey.
Zikhona Sodlaka said of his leaving: “He is the scene partner I didn’t know I needed What an incredible opportunity it is to work with such a talented man.I think our chemistry worked because of how dynamic yet similar our characters are. The one is a female version of the other and vice versa. He is the scene partner I didn’t know I needed. We got to play so much on set.”
The Wife Tis a Showmax original. You can watch this week's teaser right here!
