The thespian scooped his second South African Film and Television Award two years ago for his portrayal of Soshanguve rebel leader Moses in was destroyed in a home burglary in 2010. When he received his second, he was very emotional.
“It was confusing for me because, sure, they stole it, but it had my name on it. Why break it?” the actor told“When the old lady said that I wanted to say to her this is not like buying chips at the shop. You have to go through a process of giving your best and competing with the best in the industry.”
Thina asizinyezi ngamasiko nobubhinca bethu ninake ningo yes thina yebo
Coward!
Wayethuleleni esakwiGenerations for years.
I agree with him and we need to talk about this every day 😔
Why are some media houses doing that? Kanti what is the purpose of having SABC 1,2 and 3 if they are expected bathethe only Zulu language. That is very unfair, languages can be difficult, ask me l am bad in languages.
Tribalism is a symptoms of fear to integration, domination or learning new things from other people. This is a reflection of mental cowardnees, weakness.
Voetsek! Suka!
Yisilima lona uyakhala makukhulunywa isiZulu bathi yi tribalism kodwa khuluma isingisi welele akakhali isislima impela lesi
It's economics. The Broadcasters want to make a lot of money from the Advertisers. So they strong arm the Production Houses to give them shows that will be watched by as many people as possible, so that they can air those adverts in those slots.
What?!
Be like Tony Kgoroge, wayipopola isakude and he doesn't have to turn down roles today, he's everywhere. If you don't open production companies then learn the language. Thing is even the Fergusons use Zulu so its not about that.
Guys please read the article before commenting.
AmaXhosa nawo don't have that problem but nibala amaZulu kphela. Why?
I think the solution here is for more non Zulus Mfundi Vundlas to occupy the space so they can call the shots on who they want but they will still want Zulus there for viewership.
Grew up in kzn. My whole family speaks Zulu. Never had to use it.
ZULU language is only vital in environmental such as Taxi ranks and hostels, otherwise you'll get by successfully without knowing a word of Zulu in South Africa
Patric Mayo complaines about this in football where zulu were no passing a ball to him
misumuzi_4 Poor guy needs a job....
Mxm, why can't you learn to speak isizulu.
Tell Conni Masilo Matsunyane Ferguson to hire you ayeke amaZulu
Je must just shut up and invest in shows that speak in his own language yeses saze savelelwa
K..bt ramaphosa is in deep sh11t ...! We still focused on that ryt now
unpopular opinions 😂🤞
But is the any soapy without zulu?
Say no more
Lol 😂 not really lol 😂 we have great Tswana actors even Xhosa actors lol 😂 if u good u good
Pansalb and the Advertising Auth. supposed to be pushing for language equity, 3 public television channels and quotas are lagging behind in drama, adverts and voiceovers. Time to impose language quotas Pansalb, heard that' livelihoods depend on it. 📺🗣️🇿🇦👨👩👧👦
Black people mara…instead of listening to help, already in defence mode. The same reaction when given by a white person protecting their alleged racist friend you cry foul. Wow.. It is only Ohk when one group of blacks dominate the other..members of that group will even laugh
Don't take everything you see online seriously. Le tla mamela le dibono feela
Sifunde phela yonke into izoba buthebelele
Seputla is correct I don’t watch shows I have to read subtitles to it’s tiring I’m sorry. Also people must understand that Nguni languages make up the majority of the population in SA l, if anyone has a problem abazalane bande nabo.😂😂
If you can't speak English be prepared to starve
Isiyagqilaza ke manje😂😂😂😂😂
In white companies when Advertising jobs they stipulate you will need to be able to speak a certain language eg English,if you cannot you aren't hired ,and nobody can that company for that,the best you can do for your own sake is learn and improve your knowledge of English.
Diversity of production houses is key
Uyayibaxa.
Weh Sputla usuqala inkiyankiya yenkinga manje, ngakho ke ngithi......
Vele Zulus have this annoying tendency of thinking they are superior than other tribes.
Could've used a better reference. Scrambled eggs are really good
Mxm useless headline.
I speak venda everyone I hear saubona
NAZE NACASULA KE WBANTU BALAPHA ENINGIZIMU AFRIKA, MANJE SEKUMELE SENZENI KE THINA MAZULU SIZIBULALE CHA NINGAMANE NILALE NGEMPELA MANJE, FUTHI VELE NJE LALANI MANJE. HHAWUUU SINGAPHELA.
Y'all are cooking a pot of tribalism I see
Long time ago there was an Emperor in RSA that accommodated all tribes& colors either by force or not,the aim was unifying,got betrayed by his family, today not long ago SA had once a president that has no limits to his citizens visions but got betrayed through tribalism & racism
Lies 🙄😑.
Then ZULUS LEARN HOW TO SPEAK AFRIKAANS otherwise you are scrambled eggs but speak it like the CAPE COLOUREDS…..🤔🤔
And if you can’t speak English, what are you?
Guys we have NC, NW, Limpopo and free state same language or similar even parts of Mpumalanga but people just choose to be WEAk and stop speaking their language.. tell me in those provinces don't we have actors and producers?
Akaye ngakubo phela ayeke ukusibangela iscefe
Ofcourse, Times Live wouldn't miss a chance to Devide natives accross ethic lines🤨 With as much passion & coverage, can you please report on the latest developments around PhalaPhala
Fact
I'm tempted to agree There is a tendency of prioritizing certain part of our nation in this country Esp DStv and television in general
.......but not applicable in the Western Cape
This guy is lazy and he blames tribalism for not getting acting gigs while he's busy chowing young women
U can kill zulu with good English
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It’s about the target market. I doubt they would want him to speak IsiZulu on a show that caters for SePedi, SeSotho and SeTswana audiences. He could’ve just learnt the language. He has exceptional talent but doesn’t want to be flexible so he becomes irrelevant in the industry.
Erickmabunda Context is everything 😊
Niyadakwelana njalo nina bantu base South Africa! Yini ningahlanhane nizame ukusishaya once ngoba vele anis'funi? Masende ka Moshoeshoe
I should stop paying my TV licence.
If you cant make sense speaking English rather dont
Well we have tons of channels now, including Netflix etc. surely films and stories can be created for any language and taste. If it was just SABC I would get the tribalism part
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Last time I looked they were looting and murdering people.
that true my brother Zulu becomes the new Afrikaans
Ukusukela namuhla ngizokhuluma isizulu
Mara Kenneth Mashaba got successful without speaking or playing a role that spoke isiZulu, legenge yasenhla ngisho ungenzani iyo lezi ikhala, ay gede man
The likes of seputla were not supposed to cry foul now. They worked tirelessly with the enemy to remove the visionary Hlaudi Motshweneng. They must suffer the consequences
But what’s most popular in SA productions (especially Sopies) is code-mixing. I’m a family, the mother might speak seTswana/Sotho or sePedi whilst the father speaks isiZulu, their child speaks isiXhosa all in one conversation.
Can we all agree that the word tribalism is very primitive, even anthropologist laugh at people who use this word Ethnocentrism would be applicable please Ethnocentrismtribalism A tribe has a chief Ethnic group has a common identity qha
LOL I REALLY CANT WAIT FOR THIS TRIBALISM WAR TO START, I GUESS YOU MSUNUS ARE TIRED OF XENOPHOBIA LOL.
Make time to learn Zulu please.
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And very true
This man is shameless, language barrier had never prevented him from securing gigs. He's just another one that wants to stir tribalism pot. The majority of TV productions on SA are multilingual to accommodate everyone. The pain is, the ones that are exclusively Zulu shine better!
Sigubha umswarelo ntade
Yithi abantu. The original tribe of SA.
Yinhle leyonto noma singangeni nje kuyo
the zulu 'kingdom' is costing South Africa an enormous amount of money and what do we get in return? buggerall = always fighting. Why only they have ancestors and spirits? = we are led by the dead and with intimidation = no democracy in sight
Manje anizenzeli ngani okwenu?
Zulu se moer.
That time growing up all I heard was sesotho and setswana and with no subtitles we had to learn what was being said and we never complained.
He is certainly not talking about himself, he has played leading roles in major sopies in SA and non of them were Zulu roles.
We used watch lesilo rula 4 and nobody complained.
I don't think so, he must be forcing himself to live around Zulu-speaking areas. If he doesn't want to speak Zulu, he can go to non-Zulu speaking areas of South Africa. What is he trying to do?
I think it depends on industries, in the showbiz it could be so.
Ngyayiqala ukuyizwa lendaba!
Too who...
Who’s this clown?
That's tribalist from Nkwesheng. He had his time..
There are more Zulu ppl in SA so makes sense, you can't be in Spain and expect more English
Ekskies
Nibo wa saba AmaZulu! Nibo wa hlompha AmaZulu! Wayekeni AmaZulu!
Zulu people like acting superior entlek marrrreta bona.
Zulu not English? Name one job that will employ without English
Then just learn it! It’s like English…. We had to learn it to be able to make it in job interviews unless u applying for a job that has a certain median of communication.
Actually it all depends on which location you’re at, you go to PTA n speak isiZulu you will surprised people won’t entertain you. It’s just an all about location
He is absolutely right Uzalo Imbizo Imbewu Uthando nesthembu Egoli Ekasi stories Umdeni Uthando noxolo Uthando lodumo Umakhelwani Umpkhakati I can go on
Is this true facts then there's no Rainbow up the sky yo
Reminds me of one fellow at Varsity who said he doesn't understand why can't I speak IsiZulu ? I said okay please tell me why can't you speak Sesotho? I paralyzed him!
So who do you blame Nguni people?
Why are kids still being taught Afrikaans in KZN schools? Back in the 90's we were led to believe that we wouldn't be able to get a job in Jozi if we didn't speak the language. We were lied to.
Most people will comment under this post without having fill context. Watch the podcast and you will understand what he was saying. Hint he praised the KZN provincial government for supporting commissioning of more Zulu production as opposed to other provinces.
What about xhosa, sotho,pedi n tswana actors. Seputla was telling crap!
Nonsense... again the Sunday Times with nonsense writing... less starving majority in SA cant speak Zulu.which SA you refering to?
PRASA, City of JHB,Ekurhuleni, SAPS in Gauteng, EMPD,JMPD, TMPD,Transnet, if you're not From Limpopo your Chances are very Slim to get a Job in this Companies Niyawasukela nje amaZulu.😂😂😂
Only amongst Zulu people. Not so much around the world or the rest of SA!
Zulu the special child of South Africa
Who is stopping him to learn languages, I speak and write 8 official languages, If I remember clearly the was a time were sepedi and setswana were dominating TV,
Scrammpled eggs..
Limpopo has a big problem with kzn
He didn't give a damn around this time when the best of the best in SABC wanned to change the game.
Nothing personal here Zulu is the English of South Africa.
Ke ya mo zwa mina, u khou amba Iqiniso🤙🏾
That's tribalism.
Nguni is spoken in Zimbabwe, Swaziland, KwaZulu-Natal, Capetown
From promoting xenophobia now they are promoting tribalism
Speak Zulu or starve… kwamnandi ukuba umzulu
I think they broke it coz they hated the character Kenneth Mashaba - I did too 😐
At it again.
Sorry uMzulu ke.. Lento ayi kwazi ukubhala isizlu
After 27 years the ANC still havent introduced Zulu into all schools as a main subject. Even the white kids would love to learn Zulu! Pity the ANC is to busy spending a billion during covid sanitizing schools and not improving education.
Nope sorry for you - I don’t speak zulu and I’m doing great
That's not true. Watch all the soapies and almost all language groups are represented. How many Xhosa speaking actors are in the Queen for example? Just market yourself well.
I don't speak the language and won't change.
These other tribes must just seat down and drink water t they are not a segment in the market Limpopo,Northwest and Freestate combined can’t match the population of Kzn or Nguni speaking
Ngabe wonke ama production companies aphethwe ngamaZulu. Ngabe amaZulu atshele Connie Ferguson ukuthi aqashe wona. Lento idalwa ukuthi isiZulu isona esikhulunywa kakhulu ikakhukukazi kubantu abansundu.
When he was playing all characters including Nkusheng across all soapies he did not complain... Mind you that we have over 11 million Zulu speaking people in SA.
I see you are BHOD now, nothing to report. How about updating us about illegal immigrants who traumatised school kids last week?
Seputla should open his own production company , and redress this .
He has to accept that things are not going well career wise there was a time where the spotlite was his with his experience he should be opening a production company that will accommodate those whom he thinks are exclude and stop throwing tribalism rants
We used to have a lot of popular Sotho Language dramas in the 90s. Bo Lesilo Rula, Bophelo ke Semphekgo, Matswakable etc. They were more popular than Nguni dramas It’s only a matter of getting the producers to get the industry back to those times in order to level matters
Matamba...ni tshama Giyani ni tirha Giyani xizulu xa nwina axini pfuni nchumu🤣
I hope this 👆settles that👇
What is the aim of news media todays times 🤣😝😝 bored into tribalism, So to say Moetsepe is now Zulu? Or Ramaphosas retrenchment are all zulus?Or wait you've been in every KZN government departments, Municipalities, managements & found zulus only?😝😵KZN has Xhosa & BaSotho etc
Uzo ngena e Zulwini though.
A butternut legacy no doubt🤦♂️ Proudly enforced by Hlaudi the grade 8 yes man
Exactly Zulu people have this annoying tendency of thinking that they are superior. Hence they are just stubborn.
Uyamemeza okaNdaba🙏
What?
What if you speak Zulu but can’t speak English 😂😂😂you still fucked