Generations welcomes back fan favourite

13 May 2014 - 09:51 By ANDILE NDLOVU
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What a difference a year and a half makes: actor Seputla Sebogodi is back at SABC 1 soapie Generations.

Thanks to Sophie Ndaba's Twitpic, we now know that Sebogodi, popularly known as Kenneth Mashaba - his character for years on the soapie, is returning.

In a picture which also featured another returnee, Nambitha Mpumlwana, Ndaba wrote: "We welcome back @NAMBITHA and Seputla! Sooo Blessed to work with such talent!"

We haven't forgotten the comments he made to Drum in October 2012, when he was quoted as saying of his exit from the show: "I’m making more money now than I ever did on Generations and I’m doing better than ever.

I feel I wasted a lot of time by spending six years on the soapie and I should be a lot further in my career than I am. But I’m not complaining because I’m in a very good space right now."

Even earlier than that, he told our sister newspaper Sowetan when he left the show, he told himself he was "going to do three theatre shows and three movies a year and still have time for my children".

Generations stifled all that because of the tight shooting schedule, he suggested then.

And then this time last year, he popped up on Mzansi Magic's soapie Zabalaza, as Jazzman Cele.

"For example," he said, "when my mother died about three years ago, I had to shoot two scenes that required me to appear happy immediately after burying her.

"And last year when my son was involved in a terrible accident at school, a life-threatening situation, I had to shoot a scene before rushing to the hospital."

We're going to guess his reasons for the return: There's no place like home.

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