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Themba Ndaba

Themba Ndaba

Acting

Biography

Themba Ndaba is a South African actor best known for his role as Zimele in the SABC1 drama series Soul City. He is also known for his role as Brutus Khoza in the Mzansi Magic soapie The Queen. He played the lead role of Amos Manyani in the SABC2 mini-series Hopeville, from March to April, 2009.

Known For

Cry, the Beloved Country
6.8

A South-African preacher goes to search for his wayward son who has committed a crime in the big city.

Cry, the Beloved Country

1995
Hopeville
7.8

In a dusty small South African town, a man in search of forgiveness tries to rebuild a relationship with the son he abandoned when he was a child, while renovating a run-down outdoor swimming pool. A feel-good series with biting humor that reflects both the ills of South African society and its resilience.

Hopeville

2009
Umjolo: The Gone Girl
7.4

A couple's seemingly perfect relationship falters when one of them learns about the other's infidelity — but who said that relationships were easy?

Umjolo: The Gone Girl

2024
A Good Man in Africa
5.0

Morgan Leafy is a secretary to the British High Commissioner to an Africa nation. Leafy is a man that makes himself useful to his boss, the snobbish Arthur Fanshawe, who has no clue about what's going on around him, but who wants to use his secretary to carry on his dirty work, which involves getting one of the most powerful men in the country to do business with his country.The young secretary has an eye for beautiful women around him, especially Hazel, a native beauty, with whom he is having an affair. Things get complicated because Sam Adekunle, a man running for president of the country, wants a favor from Leafy in return after he has accepted the invitation to visit London. The proposition involves swaying a prominent doctor's opposition to a plan that will make Adenkule filthy rich.

A Good Man in Africa

1994
Inside
4.8

A South African political prisoner is tortured to obtain information on apartheid conspirators. Ten years later, the head officer in charge of the questioning is similarly held as prisoner and questioned about his past offenses.

Inside

1996
Panic Mechanic
5.7

When Hanky Pranky (alias Schucks), star of a candid camera TV show, loses his job to affirmative action, he applies for a job at a stress academy. It´s not long before Schucks discovers his new boss, Jack Paddaman, is as crooked as they come, but it´s too late: the employment contract is signed and sealed.A year passes, and Schucks is no better off. However, his candid camera videos, which poke fun at all sectors of post-1994 South Africa, prove a big hit with stressed-out government ministers. When the president asks Paddaman to make a movie to benefit street children, Schucks and his pals do all the hard work while Paddaman plans how he can get hold of the profits from the video sales. Add a scatterbrained secretary, a lovelorn traffic cop and a cunning street child and you have a roll-in-the aisles comedy with a distinctly South African flavour.

Panic Mechanic

1996
Umjolo: My Beginning, My End!
7.8

Caught between her family and her free spirit, Mayi begins to question her upcoming nuptials when she meets a charming and passionate saxophonist.

Umjolo: My Beginning, My End!

2025
Running Wild
7.5

Matt and his son Nicholas and daughter Angela move to Africa to protect the elephants. Matt uses a helicopter to stop poachers and protect the elephants.

Running Wild

1998
Lobola Man
9.1

Ace Ngubeni, a slick lobola negotiator, faces his toughest deal yet for a shy client - only to find the stakes are higher than cash.

Lobola Man

2024
Umjolo: There Is No Cure
6.9

After losing her title for publicly exposing a scandal, a former pageant queen works on a tell-all book — all while her love life remains unwritten.

Umjolo: There Is No Cure

2025
Umjolo: Day Ones
7.7

Zanele and Andile have been best friends since day one. But now that Andile is married with kids, is Zanele destined to be in the friend zone forever?

Umjolo: Day Ones

2024
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7.5

Set in Johannesburg, JUMP THE GUN follows the tangled lives of six very different working class characters, formerly kept apart by apartheid and now all striving to succeed in the new "rainbow nation". United by their insecurities - both physical and financial - the film follows their struggle to discover their niche in this brave new world, where opportunity beckons, but violence is always lurking.

Jump the Gun

1997
Hopeville
4.0

Hopeville tells the story of Amos, a reformed alcoholic on a mission to forge a relationship with his estranged son, Themba. When father and son arrive in the dusty town of Hopeville, they discover a mean little community where apathy, fear and suspicion are the order of the day. When Amos decides to restore the public swimming pool so that his son can purse a swimming career, he is met with skepticism and resistance from the town's authorities and its inhabitants. Through patience, determination and above all courage, Amos' selfless acts ripples through Hopeville, inspiring others to take action and to do what they know is right. Slowly but surely, good ripples through Hopeville, transforming the town and its inhabitants for good.

Hopeville

2010