Rami Chuene has hit the ground running. She is back at Muvhango as the superbad and yet superb Khomotjo, wasting no time to don the big girl knickers and lace up the boxing gloves to leave a trail of bloodied noses.

"Di a bowa . I've already had three fighting scenes. It's insane," she laughs.

"Khomotjo is fighting over money, she wants what is rightfully hers."

For most of last year, viewers of Muvhango were enthralled by the antics of Khomotjo. At a time when the formula of soapies has morphed so much, it was refreshing to find a character who could be so deliciously malicious in her dark and nefarious deeds.

It's her razor-sharp tongue, quick wit and that cold snide stare that will put you in your place - fast.

Not to mention her dramatic wardrobe and over-the-top accessories. This is a dream role for Chuene.

I ask her why she keeps going back to Khomotjo.

"She is fearless and crazy. She believes that she deserves everything good and is not afraid to go for what she wants by any means necessary, even if it means going into hell with her stilettos."

Chuene says Khomotjo had taken time out to rebuild herself while everyone thought she was in Seshego. But she comes back stronger and with more money.

She wastes no time changing the locks to the Mojalefa house, leaving everyone stranded.

Chuene boasts: "This is Khomotjo reloaded. You must see her new wardrobe.

"Every day I dance with joy when I see the outfits, the hats, the dresses and heels. She looks like fire.

"It's the hottest she has ever been and she is not taking prisoners."

What makes the character appealing to the viewer, Chuene reckons, is because she was an underdog and everyone loves an underdog surviving against the odds.

"Some of the things she does are not humanely doable or morally acceptable. She gets to live out that fantasy," she says.

Not only is Chuene making the much-awaited return to the small screen. She has added "author" to her resumé with her biography We Kissed the Sun and Embraced the Moon.

She hastens to inform me the book is now available at Exclusive Books after she had spent some time selling it from her car boot, which she jokingly calls Ramsgate Boot Store.

It's been a few weeks since the book hit the mainstream chain store after she approached them and urged them to take up the good business opportunity.

The book is a light and easy read, detailing the times of her upbringing. The games she played as a child and the happy memories of growing up in Seshego.

And then there's the dark and sad side of sexual molestation and kidnapping that she survived.

It's witty and funny and very much tongue-in-cheek when she talks about how as a darker child in the family she would be bypassed for the role of a bridesmaid or flower girl at family weddings.

"I just felt that there was a gap from the times of great Pedi writers like [OK] Motsepe and [CN] Phatudi who wrote the Limpopo stories I grew up on beautifully.

"We should tell our stories to our children and share those tales. It's something to enjoy, laugh about and go nostalgic over."

She is right, the stories she shares in the book are universal and the games they played as children were played in many other townships across South Africa.

She is still a top-notch corporate performer when she is not selling books or bringing Khomotjo to life.

Chuene shares some of her secrets to a good and healthy life.

"I have lost some weight, and I have a firm butt, it's all thanks to gym."

I ask her about 2016 and how it's been as we're in the middle of the year.

"It's been a good year. It started slowish, thank God for the book, it kept me going until I now realise that we're at the halfway mark.

"My kids are happy, I'm happy, life is good," says Chuene.