Breaking the Cycle: TV star's reflections on domestic abuse

Sello Maake. (Courtesy)

Back in the 1990s, the South African soap opera Generations graced our screens. It aired alongside the Johannesburg sitcom Sub-Urban Bliss, both offering a rare glimpse into a South Africa that had been hidden behind the apartheid curtain for decades. The only art that managed to escape before the end of apartheid in 1990 was music.

The main character in Generations was Archie Moroka, a member of the prominent Moroka family, played by Sello Maake ka Ncube. Now in his mid-60s, Sello featured on a South African podcast, and I was given a chance to see another side of the TV star that I didn't know before.