previously, the actress said she was caught off guard by the amount of love and appreciation she received when she played Mandisa on“You can only imagine it caught me by surprise but I love being part of the South African population. I love belonging to this country, and for this country to say yes to me and to see them so invested in the story it means they really do see themselves in it.
It makes me a proudly South African true story.”“Mandisa was never supposed to be someone who lasted past the first season. I had taken the role knowing this is the character who dies in the first season. This is something we knew from the word go as she kills herself, even in the book. But because viewers loved her so much we had to keep her and in deciding to keep her, the writers explored what we could do with her, and the results were pure magic.