Watch " Dudu Busani-Dube on Showmax's Hlomu the Wife adaptation" It's going to be very different.
The Johannesburg Review of Books calls Dudu Busani-Dube “a publishing phenomenon.” She’s become the face of self-publishing in South Africa, having topped the Exclusive Books charts, and landed four books simultaneously in the Nielsen Bookscan SA bestseller list for July 2021. And that was before Showmax announced they were adapting the series of books that made her name - Hlomu the Wife , Zandile the Resolute and Naledi His Love - into their first Showmax Original telenovela, unleashing the most heated casting debate South Africa has ever seen. As IOL ’s Buhle Mbonambi put it, “No other South African series had garnered that much attention on who was cast in the roles before. In my years of reporting about the South African TV industry, I had never come across such heated debate. Even when Deon Meyer's Trackers book was adapted for screen by M-Net, there wasn't this much attention paid to the casting choices. But then there have been few characters as fascinating o