MMABATHO Mogomotsi, who played Snowey in Yizo Yizo more than 20 years ago, is making a comeback.
The actress will be in the new South African contemporary Western series Outlaws on Showmax, which premiers on 6 September.
Mmabatho has been featured on shows such as Muvhango, Rhythm City, The Wild, Jacob’s Cross and The River.
Now she plays Moretlo, the Basotho queenpin of the largest cattle raiding syndicate in Lesotho.
She described the play as “a story where two families are at loggerheads over continued cattle theft". Stock theft wars between communities in Lesotho and KZN are a reality for many who live in those areas.
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"I’ve spoken to a few people who identify with the story. I relate so much to this story because I am also a mother with children just like Moretlo. I’m a mother who is firm with her children. I’m a mom who’s also laid back but I draw the line. Moretlo is the same with her son,” she said.
Mmabatho said Moretlo is the matriarch of the Ts’eole family that belongs to the Basotho side of the story.
"She is your ordinary woman in the village but she’s got a twist about her. She will fight for her family by all means necessary. She would just put up a different personality and do what she needs to do at the time to survive. She would use her gun without thinking twice. At war she changes into something very different,” she said.
The actress said Outlaws is like a Western exciting drama.
“I have respect for the talent that you see and experience and the talent you don’t see behind the camera.
"Both in front and behind the camera, there’s magic. Besides that, the story is in itself excellent. That's what the audience will stay glued to,” said Mmabatho.
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