In over a decade of acting Siyabonga Shibe has brought an array of characters to life and the actor told TshisaLIVE that one of the most disturbing things for him was realising that these men, although fictional on TV were reflections of men he's seen in his life.
Siyabonga said some of the characters he's played were so evil that they left him traumatised, like Matthew on Mzansi Magic's Isthunzi.
"It is actually sometimes a traumatizing experience. Some of the men I play are disturbingly evil, which is why it is vital to learn to separate oneself from the character. That is where experience has helped me because some of the men I get to play even shock me."
Isthunzi was an award winning drama, in which Siya played the character of Matthew, an overly religious man who raped and impregnated his daughter and killed her mother for threatening to leave him when she found out.