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Remember When... with Andile Ndlovu

Andile Ndlovu

17 episodes

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This podcast is ALL NOSTALGIA! I'm really going to be exposing my age here, but a lot of the interviews and topics on this podcast will celebrate people whose feats enriched and entertained us over the years - so, from sports to arts and entertainment and culture. You will hear from people who inspired me growing up (and perhaps you), and altered my worldview or ideas about what was possible. If it sounds a little indulgent on my part, I'm sorry, but... it is MY podcast ;-)

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This podcast is ALL NOSTALGIA! I'm really going to be exposing my age here, but a lot of the interviews and topics on this podcast will celebrate people whose feats enriched and entertained us over the years - so, from sports to arts and entertainment and culture. You will hear from people who inspired me growing up (and perhaps you), and altered my worldview or ideas about what was possible. If it sounds a little indulgent on my part, I'm sorry, but... it is MY podcast ;-)

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Remember When... Vulindlela College was our dream school?

Remember When... with Andile Ndlovu

48 minutes 51 seconds

4 years ago

Remember When... Vulindlela College was our dream school?

[Audio clip(s) courtesy: etv.co.za]

Please! Did you heat that amazing theme song? It brings back so many memories of evenings spent on the couch in front of the TV, watching eTV’s youth drama “Backstage”.

It's true, many of the guests who have appeared on this show are not always the most obvious or expected, but I went with a woman who, when things were falling apart both on-screen and behind the scenes at Backstage, embodied resilience and remained integral to the story.

Grace Mahlaba (now the Creative Producer of #etvScandal) played Ipeleng Theledi right from the get-go, leading the young, beautiful and talented students of Vulindlela College - a school for the performing arts. It was almost like our FAME or in more recent times, Netflix’s Tiny Pretty Things. These students were ambitious and desperate enough for success to go for it no matter the ramifications. That was the same on Backstage. It was written by Collin Oliphant, who was at Mfundi Vundla’s Morula Pictures, and it introduced us Bonnie Mbuli who, believe it or not, was making her acting debut as the super bitch “Zandi”, there was Katlego Danke (currently on Gomora), Dini Nondumo (who’s now Head of Commercial Insurance at Standard Insurance Limited), and KB Motsilanyane (whose music I’ve always loved).

Ipeleng ran Vulindlela with the help of Katlego Rathebe, Naomi Singh, and Charmaine Jacobs.

I spoke to Grace Mahlaba about making the move to Cape Town to join the show, the shocking deaths of cast mates, the disruption caused by lawsuits between eTV and the show’s producers which a ultimately saw the show move to Joburg, and when she knew it was time to go.

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Email: andile.1987@gmail.com

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