Actress Leera Mthethwa who plays Mam Hlongwane on Mzansi Magic's Gomora has a mini-series on Instagram where she invites a cast member and schools them out the Pretoria language, Spitori. In the recent episode, she had rising star Ntobeke Sishi who portrays the character of Ntokozo.
"Welcome to Spitori with Jackie, today we have Mr Dlamini Jr," said the actress upon welcoming Ntobeko. "I'm going to ask you what do you think a word means in Spitori and you are going to tell me."
She asked the young actor what the word Modowva means and the actor seemed clueless and Leera told him not to take hints from their cast members. His response was, does it mean like Modowva, move over? Everyone on set burst into laughter.
Jackie then revealed that the word actually means a car that is stolen. She then asked him to use it in a sentence and his example was, "Ke tshwere Modwva"
She teased him further and said, "You are so proud after move over/ Modowva" and after that Ntobeke said that he wants to learn another Pitori word. She also encourage her followersto vote for Ntobeko Sishi as he's been nominated for 'Best Male' actor at the KZN Entertainment Awards.
Outside of his flourishing acting career, Sishi also has a music career that is gaining momentum. He recently dropped an EP titled Sad Boy Summer Pt. 1 which consists of two tracks.
The star, who hold two degrees in finance chatted to us earlier on in the year and revealed that although his passion is in the arts, he thought it would be more beneficial for him to study finance. This would in turn allow him to merge two industries and create his own. Ntobeko believes that the entertainment business is something that hasn’t really been thoroughly done in South Africa and also around the world - artists are not placed first. His vision is to create a sustainable industry for African creatives.
