She serves some of the hottest klaps on television, yet she remains everyone's favourite aunt.
The belligerent nature of the cheeky and feisty Norain from Matatiele as the over-protective aunt of Nontle has made her likeable to television fans who silently wish to have a family member ready to fight their battles like her.
In the e.tv drama, Norain belongs to a Xhosa family, the Sanqus, whose daughter Nontle gets married to Lefa, a Sotho man of the Monahengs. It has been a treacherous road to the altar for the young lovers - played by Zimkitha Kumbaca and Solomon Sebothoma - punctuated by violent if not comedic moments from Norain. She has slapped and assaulted Lefa so many times, and once climbed on top of the table to take on Lefa's mother Aus Beauty, played by Motshabi Tyelele, during one of the family negotiations.
But the woman who plays Norain, Charmaine Kweyama, says she is no fighter. But, she draws the inspiration from real life. "I had aunts like those in my family. One once whipped out an okapi from her breast to stab a young man who tried to steal my grandmother and great-grandmother's suitcase," she laughs.
Kweyama says when she was offered the role by director Rolie Nikiwe, she got worried because she didn't know how to fight.
"I have never ever fought as an actor, and when I had to assault Solomon (Lefa) I told him to be prepared because I didn't know what was going to happen," she remembers. The scene was the saddest and funniest.
"Matatiele gave me a platform to fight. But really, I'm loud but I can't fight," she says. Kweyama says she thought viewers would hate the character because "uNorain ukrwada" (Norain is raw).
In her earlier roles, she was the young Bongi in Generations and schoolgirl Nomsa in Yizo Yizo.
She has just finished a short film, Bicycle Man, with Twiggy Matiwane, where she plays Olga, a housewife whose husband is diagnosed with breast cancer.
Looking over her career, Kweyama says it has been a bumpy, but enjoyable ride.
lMatatiele is on e.tv on Tuesdays at 9.05pm
mofokengl@sowetan.co.za
She can't fight, but she's got hot klaps
She serves some of the hottest klaps on television, yet she remains everyone's favourite aunt.
The belligerent nature of the cheeky and feisty Norain from Matatiele as the over-protective aunt of Nontle has made her likeable to television fans who silently wish to have a family member ready to fight their battles like her.
In the e.tv drama, Norain belongs to a Xhosa family, the Sanqus, whose daughter Nontle gets married to Lefa, a Sotho man of the Monahengs. It has been a treacherous road to the altar for the young lovers - played by Zimkitha Kumbaca and Solomon Sebothoma - punctuated by violent if not comedic moments from Norain. She has slapped and assaulted Lefa so many times, and once climbed on top of the table to take on Lefa's mother Aus Beauty, played by Motshabi Tyelele, during one of the family negotiations.
But the woman who plays Norain, Charmaine Kweyama, says she is no fighter. But, she draws the inspiration from real life. "I had aunts like those in my family. One once whipped out an okapi from her breast to stab a young man who tried to steal my grandmother and great-grandmother's suitcase," she laughs.
Kweyama says when she was offered the role by director Rolie Nikiwe, she got worried because she didn't know how to fight.
"I have never ever fought as an actor, and when I had to assault Solomon (Lefa) I told him to be prepared because I didn't know what was going to happen," she remembers. The scene was the saddest and funniest.
"Matatiele gave me a platform to fight. But really, I'm loud but I can't fight," she says. Kweyama says she thought viewers would hate the character because "uNorain ukrwada" (Norain is raw).
In her earlier roles, she was the young Bongi in Generations and schoolgirl Nomsa in Yizo Yizo.
She has just finished a short film, Bicycle Man, with Twiggy Matiwane, where she plays Olga, a housewife whose husband is diagnosed with breast cancer.
Looking over her career, Kweyama says it has been a bumpy, but enjoyable ride.
lMatatiele is on e.tv on Tuesdays at 9.05pm
mofokengl@sowetan.co.za
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