Mothusi Magano Joins SABC 1 Skeem Saam[Check What he is Up To]

Mothusi Magano joins the SABC 1 Skeem Saam

Actor Mothusi Magano is ready to impress audiences when he makes his debut on the most popular SABC 1 soapie Skeem Saam this week as the “Tumishang”.
Mothusi will play the role of a man who drops out of school, only to return years later to study law. He has to steer life as a 30-something trying to get his degree.

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“He was a student at varsity but got caught up in the student life of partying and didn’t do well in his first year. His father refused to keep paying so he dropped out and ends up finding his passion for gardening. After starting a modest gardening business, he decides to go back to school to study law and meets Pretty (Lerato Marabe) at university,” Mothusi told TshisaLIVE.

Magano ends up moving into the property at Pretty’s home {seakamela’s family). Mothusi said the role resonated with him and taught the value of second chances in life.“You have to take responsibility for your actions, but if you are determined you can fulfil your dream.”He told TshisaLIVE.

Who is Mothusi Magano?

Mothusi Magano is a South African actor best known for his starring role as Charles “Mingus” Khathi in the SABC3 drama series The Lab, from 2006-2009.
He was born (16 March 1979) in the small village of Phokeng on the outskirts of Rustenburg. At the age of five, his family relocated to Mafikeng where, at the Mmabana Cultural centre, he got his very first taste of performance when he performed in a charade called A Dragon For Dinner.

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In 1998, Mothusi registered at the Wits School of Dramatic Art. In his first year of study he auditioned for all plays at Wits and got into two: Death and the Maiden where he played Gerardo Escobar and Little Shop of horrors, in which he played Audrey Two.

In 2003, a friend asked him to be Harry Lime in his production of The Third Man and Mothusi asked agent Moonyeenn Lee to watch the production. Two days later she signed him to her agency and through her he filmed his first film: Gums and Noses, followed by Hotel Rwanda and Tsotsi (Oscar Winner for Best Foreign Film), as well as FNB commercials.

He has acted in a number of theatre productions including The Third Man, Stones in His Pockets, Venus, Four, Lysistrata, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Bread and Butter, Maid in the New South Africa, American Buffalo, The Coloured Museum, Sexual Perversity in Chicago and Hamlet.

In 2004 he had a supporting role in the second season of the SABC2 police procedural series Zero Tolerance. Other television series he guest-starred in include Home Affairs, Sorted, Muvhango and Izoso Connexion.

In 2006 he landed his first major television role in The Lab, in which he starred for three seasons. He had a recurring role in the fifth season of the ITV drama series Wild at Heart, in 2010.

In 2011 he had a guest-starring role in the SABC1 drama series Intersexions and in 2012 he guest-starred in the SABC2 drama series 90 Plein Street.

He landed his second starring role in 2013 in the SABC1 drama series Tempy Pushas, set against the backdrop of the lavish fashion world and juxtaposed with the vibrant township culture.

In November of the same year, he joined e.tv soapie Scandal! in the role of the mysterious assassin The Dustbin Man.

In 2019 he joined SABC1 soapie Skeem Saam as Tumishang, a 30-something law student who moves in with MaNtuli (Dieketseng Mnisi) and Pretty (Lerato Marabe) as a tenant in their back room.

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