Featured Artists
South Africa’s top Actors, Singers, Dancers and Voice Over Artists
AESOP’s FABLES
Funny, fast-paced, and full of surprises, Aesop’s Fables is a 45–50-minute theatrical adventure learners, families and schools will be talking about long after the curtain falls. Book now! Through bold storytelling, physical play, and infectious humour, this production reimagines the classics we grew up with: The Tortoise and the Hare, The Grasshopper and the Ant, The Lion and the Mouse, The Boy Who Cried Wolf, and The North Wind and the Sun for a new generation of young South African audiences.
Lihle Ngubo plays various characters like the Hare (in Tortoise and the Hare), Hopper (The Grasshopper and the Ants) and others that all have a common thread of teaching moral lessons through short stories about animals.
Aesop’s Fables opens at The National Children’s Theatre on 10 August
UMTHETHO
Umthetho is a South African crime thriller series the show follows an idealistic state prosecutor who becomes a double agent in her imprisoned brother’s syndicate to save their youngest sibling.
Nqobile Nunu HK portrays the part of Mbali is a sharp, calculated woman in her 30s from Soweto, South Africa. She has the kind of presence that commands, always impeccably put together, with a composed exterior that hides the emotional turmoil she keeps locked inside. She carries the weight of her family’s struggles on her shoulders, acting as the breadwinner and protector of her
troubled brother. While she exudes confidence, intelligence, and resilience, she is often caught between wanting to maintain control and dealing with the vulnerability that comes from years of emotional repression.
Sello Ramolahloane plays VALAZA. Valaza has been in prison for a long time and does’nt subscribe to prison gangs. He is a Brotherhood member and Mose’s right hand man and has seen the injustices of the prison management on prisoners. Their plan is to escape and expand the Brotherhood movement outside the prison walls.
Umthetho premieres on Netflix on August 14, 2026