Anine Scholtz: The PA
ANINE is a girlfriend to MARK, the physicist. She is also a sister to HELEN, the Pimptress. She was in the television industry and it turned out too hard for her. The radio industry was too confusing to even fit into her career pocket. She had no career direction when she suddenly met the egotistical SEAN, who liked her from day one. In all his dubious attempts to make Peter Brook’s theatre alive in Soweto, she is there and patiently learning from him. Like her sister, she is a great businesswoman, innocently though.
In terms of her personality, she is like Natalie in Love Actually but the only difference is that she is smart and often more helpful than SEAN expects. She is the only answer to the problem SEAN is facing: new theatre generation. She might be from the old school, but she is familiar with the new school theatrical world. She can combine the two to compliment both generations. She is also clued up with regards to the Soweto mix cultures. Perhaps after proving herself to SEAN she can earn her right to finally become a theatre producer.
Anne van Resburg: The Balanced Cop
ANNE is the loudest cop in ANDREW’s confusing police station. She sees no fault in her loud spirit for she grew up in the house of noise. She is from a big farming family in Zuurbekom, on the far South West of Soweto. She’s been in the police department for thirteen years and she wants to be a captain soon. She is the second lieutenant after SARAH. They both take orders from the president, JAKKIE, who is almost as loud as she is.
ANNE is an honest cop when it suits her. Otherwise, she is a corrupt cop who can make the streets for for her advantage. She takes bribes, she kills criminal, she arrests corrupt officials, she works hard, then she goes lazy. It is because of this mix of the both worlds that Andrew is having a hard time getting rid of her. She fknows this and dares him to speak. She says until the day he faces her and shows her where she is going wrong, she will continue to do her work the way she does. This is helpful because ANDREW never faced any of the 27 cops that he got rid of. They were all dealt with by the higher office and just vanished, without ANDREW so much as mentioning to them that they are in trouble. He may be a silent killer, but not to ANNE. She is simply a tough cookie who knows the rules of the game. And she wins all the time… according to her, anyway.
ANNESA LIMBADA: Corruption Attorney @ LUCAS’ Office
ANNESA is counted among the toughest students of the law. She serves law with the most basic principle: Win the case! Whether her client is guilty or not she always finds a way to win… eventually. In her career so far she has political clients like Tokyo Sexwale and Tony Yengeni among others. This explains why the latter is walking free (and drunk) when he is supposed to be serving his time in jail. The former (Tokyo Sexwale) is not even close to being investigated because of ANNESA’s deals. She’s pulled a lot of these for him behind closed doors. The people who know the truth about Tokyo’s sudden jump to wealth keep coming with threat. But she can handle them on his behalf. HELEN likes her reputation. She might just need ANNESA to protect her with regards to the pending pimping problems.
ANNESA does not care about working for the truth more than she cares about how to turn it to her advantage. She likes CECELIA from MARIUS’ office for they have one thing in common: strive for the deal and avoid going to trial. However, when she does go to trial she takes cases with enthusiasm. She trusts no one in her office, including her bosses. Not only does she distrust them, she specifically hates ROWENA who is always making sure that she knows who the boss is. In good time she will get out of this firm and start her own empire.
Anthea Ross: The Cop with the Spiritual Talents
ANTHEA claims to be the spiritual adviser from the far lands in the East lands. Whenever asked which East lands she gets irritated and never answer that question. Some think she is merely from the East city called Pietermaritzburg. She has clients from all the corners of the ghetto world, but is confused half the time on her private practice. For this she blames her mentors who took her to Ekuthwaseni (Initiation). Apparently she had a false alarm about having ‘the calling’. She claims she has served an Eastern royal family for a ‘long time’. But if one was to do the math of her claims, it would prove her much older than she is. So people choose not to dig on that sangoma topic. They just take her word for it.
However, on a daily bases, she is your ordinary police officer who does her job with absolute precision. Though he won’t admit it himself, she is ANDREW’s best officer. ANDREW is a hard man to please, but she can get a smile from his always-scrutinizing face. Under her control, she has the novice officer, GINO, who is almost always confused by the rules of police conduct.
ANTHONY PASSIER: Private Investigator
ANTHONY is a skillful silent investigator working from his house’ basement. He got his training from Eastern Cape Police Academy. He then got a law degree at UCT after trying the service of a regular police officer. Like MK, he enjoys working for himself and dictates the terms of his job. He never needs her, but she often call for his help. He is a very private man with a generous smile and not many words. He has no time for chitchat, but would endure listening to the participants of this ‘pointless activity’. With regards to the study of the streets, he was trained side by side with ROWAN. This training was conducted by ROWAN and MARIUS’ father who was the king of the streets at the time.
Though he sometimes works with her, ANTHONY differs with MK on many issues. He thinks her American ideas of running things are going to get her in trouble someday. On the contrary she likes him for his commitment to the job and presenting the results with perfect professional handling. ANTHONY does not like being in the scene of things and mostly keep to himself and his work. Sometimes he randomly helps Captain ANDREW, especially when he thinks that they need him. He prefers they don’t mention his name when they solve the cases he helped with. He says people need to believe in the police so the police can be motivated to do better work.
Baba and Claudia: Former Teazers Dancers
BABA and CLAUDIA are old time friends who went to school together from as early as the third grade (standard one). They are originally from Greenvillage, on the far west of Soweto. After completing matric they tried all kinds of life skills to make a living. They worked as waitresses at a number of restaurants; petrol station baristas and served a terrible coffee; and they tried modeling, which resulted in them working at Teazers as exotic dancers. It was thanks to Faizel’s greed and the damn Russian girls that these two left Teasers. The Russians are crowding the exotic dance stages. There is no place for ‘Local is Lekker’, which was Faizel’s motto. So they reclaimed their acting talents. SHAMEEMA found them in one of the auditions for a television commercial and invited them to meet SEAN. SEAN had no work at the time. These ladies will stick together under any given circumstances. They are like family to each other and there is no one that can brake this twenty-four years bond.
Bathandwa Alperstein: Car Windows Expert
BATHANDWA is a man living and working in Pimville, Soweto. He runs a car window fitting business with the help of his two brothers, SIBU KOLWAPI and MPUMELELO NGEWU. He is the oldest and the owner of this business. His brothers are welcome to do other work besides working for him. The business he runs is next to FRED’s car dealership, where both legal and illegal cars are modified or given a ‘face lift’. BATHANDWA always sees strange things happening in that Frenchman’s business. Usually he put the blind eye to it all since some of FRED’s customers come to his business too. Besides, FRED is a very friendly man to his neighbors.
BATHANDWA is only troubled by one thing only, and that is MANDY being on the receiving end of the merciless hand of FRED. BATHANDWA and MANDY are apparently connected and have been doing something for the past year. The two of them have some kind of the scheme to take ERIC. He did them wrong before he vanished with the wind years back. The trouble with this is that they do not know that JONO The Judge is still around and is now the real Judge. MANDY and BATHANDWA share a great loss in which both ERIC and JONO had a hand in.
Brandt Botes: The Swindler
BRANDT goes a long way back with IMRAAN. Where IMRAAN would chicken out, which is in most cases, BRANDT would act bravely and get the results. Unlike IMRAAN, this man is loud and serious. He is a smooth talker who is good with both numbers and words. He has the ability to work with everyone and assume the boss position at his will. IMRAAN understands his ego, but he would rather not encourage it. IMRAAN prefers to call him his best man or handy man, if you will.
BRANDT used to work for FRED till he tried to steal some money from him. Real recognises Real: FRED saw this plan from a mile away and kicked him out. That’s when he joined the crew through his cousin, FRANS, who’s not in the crew.
Brett Netherton: Taxi Driver Two
BRETT rides a Bling-bling 2009 Toyota Quantum. He works for the Taxi rank operating between Pimville town, via Bara. His final stop is ‘End’ (that is the far East of the city). From his route, he enjoys passing by Bara (short for Baraguanath Hospital) for this is where he gets a lot of commuters. He is seriously buggered by the people still riding in the oldschool taxis. He calims the ‘Zolabhad’ time is up and the drivers need to realize that and catch up on the smooth ride of the Quantum. He works for a very demmanding boss who does not want anything less than fifteen hundreds per day. BRETT meets this target every day and rarely makes extra cash for himself.
BROWNWEN PHILIPS: PROUD MOM
BROWNWEN is a lady from Rockville Soweto who tried her best to shield her only baby boy from the harm of the ghetto. Though she has always lived in Soweto, her manner is that of a countrywoman who treats her neighbors with a humble and respectful manner. She tries to meet as much people as she can in her life and she remembers them even after decades of not seeing them. She retired early because her late husband left her a fortune to last her for a very long time. She considers herself successful with regards to the money in the bank and an educated child. In her opinion her boy is doing a fantastic job in the police force. Looking at GINO, the captain wanted to correct her, but he stopped himself and spared her the misery.
BROWNWEN is constantly at GINO’s place of work to offer him and his ‘good Captain’ some lovely home made cookies. She has high presence in the police station; she could practically be part of the police staff. GINO does not have the mother-at-work embarrassment anymore. When he tried to stop her from coming she asked him if she embarrasses him and he had no words but a smile. She took that as a no to her question. He is now equally appreciative of her as she is of him. And when asked about his mother always coming by he sometimes responds by saying that she makes him feel safe while he works.
CANDICE HATTING: The Struggling Actress
CANDICE is from the heart of Ndofaya (Meadowlands) and has been in the acting business since primary school. Her mother always told her that it was important to make your name in the world of art otherwise you are nobody. She also told her that making it does not come easy. CANDICE thought her mom was wrong on that when she secured a big acting role for TV immediately after graduation. When SABC’s bosses started firing one another her TV program fell with the unfortunate crowd. She was a ‘struggling actress’ for two months then met SEAN after reading about his recruitment on Sowetan. She enjoys his free spirited creativity that almost always gives a new meaning to theatre. She just can’t figure out his obsession with PETER BROOK.
Since she started working for SEAN, her main competition is SHAMEEMA who always ends up getting the lead roles. She suspects that SEAN has a thing for her (SHAMEEMA), but then again he seems to have a thing for all the ladies he meets and work with. CANDICE was in the same class with JAMES, the supposed acting expert. She is privately trying to get back to TV and make her mama proud again.
CARYN BRITS and DONNA ASHBY: Officers On ANNE’S Wing
CARYN and DONNA are both from the city of Pretoria and have been in the police force for seven years. They started serving in the Meadowlands police station around the same time that ANNE moved there from Hillbrow. These two have always operated as sisters. They were next-door neighbor back in Menlyn, Pretoria. They were classmates in school from the very first grade through to matric. They went through high school with flying colors in terms of performance. They were even prefects at their matriculating year. When everybody was expecting them to do something as attractive as accounts, medicine or engineering, they simply chose to be police officers. Nobody really knows their reasoning behind this decision. All people know is that they behaved like the two rebels with a ‘focused cause’. It’s been seven years and the cause is not so innocent as it was in high school. They have seen no recognition or promotion since they started, but their practice has evolved through the years.
DONNA is always the responsible one while CARYN allows her noise and charm to attract the unnecessary attention. They report to LIEUTANANT ANNE (The Balanced Cop) who helped a lot in the evolution of their police practice. ANNE practically gave them her own version of conducting the law and dismissed everything else. DONNA and CARYN have learned to use tricks of getting away with a lot just because they are cops. The three of them recently organized the disappearance of MANDY’s BMW (Dolphin) from the holding deck and sold it back to the criminals. In their own time they engineer a way to make money from the streets by threatening criminals with anything from a time in jail to paying a fine greater than their asking price. EUGENE is among their victims because of his history and street reputation. Though he claims that he is a changed man, they don’t believe him. KEENAN and LUNGILE have mixed emotions with regards to these ladies because they are sometimes business partners while at other times they pose a threat to their criminal empire.
Cecelia Barron: Criminal Attorney @ Marius’ Office
CECELIA is a former employee of the government law firm. She was there when Thabo Mbheki took office for the second time. She only started working in MARIUS’ office about a year ago. She takes orders directly from DOMINIQUE who is among the senior attorneys in MARIUS’ firm. Her job usually entails protecting any big shot criminal who has the guts to look for a lawyer. She usually avoids going to court. Rather, she would have her client reach some kind of settlement with the plaintiff involved. This usually works when the client is avoiding jail, which might happen if they go to trial. She is not keen on winning the cases, but keen on saving the clients from going to jail. That’s her mission. At times this mission is disturbed when a client does not want to settle. MARIUS trusts her nigotiating skills and her soft personality when dealing with major issues. She is the direct opposite to SAMITHA in terms of the smile generosity. CECELIA is originally from Diepkloof, Soweto, but now lives in town and hardly sees the ghetto.
Christobel Koul: Businesswoman (Spaza Owner)
CHRISTOBEL is a lady of value and standard. She has no tertiary education, but her matric. She is a self-taught academic individual. She loves accounting, which was the first subject she taught herself. Through her hustling, she extended her parents house to a three bedroom, huge lounge house. She is a sibling to two other girls (CORLIA, the reporter and COLLEEN, the bank manager). These two sisters got married and left home after their parents past away.
CHRISTOBEL always knew she was destined for greatness because it was always hard to keep a job. She would either quite because the boss was stupid, or that she saw no growth in the job she’s in. Or any number of reasons that only proved to her that she is better off without the job. After enough times of re-writing the CV and knocking at the doors, she started the ‘mkhozi’ bussines of selling fruits and vegetables. She did this just outside her mom’s house. It was strange to see a younger lady doing this kind of mundane job. But she had a vision and she is living the vision when we meet her in the story.
Claire Kobledick: The Judge
CLAIRE is the judge who just does her job in the most strict and easygoing way. Some people like to think that she is up to no good while some take her seriously for her work. As an applicant or the respondent one cannot afford to easily think they got her on their side. Many have made that mistake and lost their cases under her hammer.
CLAIRE is skilled with the art of turning tables during the court proceedings. Trusting her during court proceeding is as good as jumping into the fire. She did psychology alongside law and she is brilliant with reverse psychology. She enjoys reminding people, even the attorneys themselves, about the basics of the law: no favors, just justice. She serves the law with no siding at all. She is always fair. As far as she is concerned, skipping some details is as good as lying. She was among the first group of female judges in the federal office, which explains her conduct. She knows no friend in her practice. She DI, and RUTH are in the same office at the Rivonia court.
COLLEEN CHRISTIANS: The Banker With A Dirty History
COLLEEN is the first born of the three C sisters (CORLIA AND CHRISTOBEL). She is a diligent and successful bank manager at standard bank in Hillbrow. She has been working for the bank for as long as her memory can serve her. She got the job from JONO’s connections of old. She is the one who hired the criminal-look-alike, Ngamla Stooks (FRANS). She did this after everybody rejected him with the claim that he could be a potential threat. She believes in giving people a second chance since that was what she got after getting involved in the drugs business. She was in the production line of JONO’s drugs business in her youth. She bought her first car with the money she made from his business. Though she was the second to move from her mother’s house, she was the first to drive a fancy car, which she loved with a passion. Back in those days she was the only lady in her neighborhood to have a Gusheshe (BMW 325is).
She admires what her little sister, CHRISTOBEL, did to their home through her hard work at the, now, spaza. COLLEEN is doing her best to avoid her other sister, CORLIA, who is very keen on finding out how she was involved with JONO in her youth. COLLEEN claims that she has buried that past and has no intentions to talk about it, especially to her ambitious reporter sister. To the contrary her past is seeking her because she is not only managing the bank, she is also handling JONO’s non-taxed and unexplained profits, which ERIC knows about.
Collette Cruywagen: The Chile Queen
COLLETTE is the silent lady who is always close to ERIC wherever he goes. She’s not always attentive towards everibody else. She always seems to be solving some imaginary mathematical problems in her mind. However, she always responds very quickly to any request from ERIC. IMRAAN’ crew does not interact with her at all. They just guess a whole lot of crazy things about her. Some think she is ERIC’s ‘chick bodyguard’, some say she is his girlfriend, most believe that she is the one who does all the dirt of the Mafia. If this last part is true, it would explain why they are not as criminally active as they used to be before ERIC went over seas. All they know is that ERIC picked her up in Chile. They are dreaded by her, especially when she points her penetrating eyes their direction. She actually enjoys the idea that they are afraid of what they don’t know. At some point she actually believes that tthey are afraid of her beauty. She is simply a Chilean girl with not much English to offer. She just happens to have met a Mafia wanna be, Eric, back in her home town.
CORLIA PETERS: News Reporter
CORLIA is one of the C sisters (CORLIA, CHRISTOBEL and COLLEEN) and is the middle child. She was the first to leave home to pursue her dreams. She started with journalism through Boston College while she stayed in Melville. When she finished she was hired by Yfm as a newsreader when the station was starting up in 1997. While reading the news every morning and evening, she got her media degree through corresponding with UNISA and she started writing articles for The Star. She quit Yfm so that she can be in the making of the articles she writes. Her work has improved so much after she chose that strategy. She was offered a desk job as an editor and she declined it with the argument that her passion is in the adventure of meeting the news as they happen.
Her goal is to write for TIME magazine and her main interests are the corrupt politicians and the economy. She firmly believes that the revolutionaries had a plan to take on the country’s economy during the struggle days. Her argument is that if the fight for freedom failed, we would know ANC differently. This argument is backed by their apparent corrupt behavior while power belongs to them. She is privately writing a book on this subject. She hopes it will shed some light to the public regarding the consistency of political corruption we experience on our daily lives. During all this she met and married a man who is the editor of Sunday Times.
Dave Mackay: Environmentalist and investigator.
DAVE is privately involved on the mission to save the planet. Global warming is almost always on top of his life agenda. He has a plan to propose to MARIUS, his boss, with regards to recycling bottles. He got this idea after he discovered that billions of bottles enter Soweto on a monthly bases. According to DAVE, almost two thirds of this number never leaves Soweto to be reused or recycled. Rather, they end up on the ground. Walking in some open spaces of Soweto, the green bottles are close to replacing the green grass. All he wants is to change this so there can be a kind of an environmental responsibility around Soweto. DAVE would like to involve MARK, the physicist in this mission to save the planet.
His traditional job is at MARIUS’ Bara office (number two office) as part of the marketing team. He works closely with IVAN who is the most trusted in that office. Together they form a team that only maximizes the private business running in that office. But unlike IVAN, DAVE is good with the art of investigation.
DEBBIE SHER: The Police Contact
DEBBIE is the most senior lieutenant at the Hillbrow police station. She recently started specializing in corruption investigations within corporate businesses. She is a former partner to the newly promoted CAPTAIN ANDREW. She has a bit of history on the criminal world and ANDREW always held this fact against her with the claim that once a ‘Pirate always a Pirate’. She never cared for his stubborn ignorance and his crazy motives of trying to fly solo while they are supposed to be partners. She is not interested in the Captaincy, which was given to him. She was delighted to work alone after her new partner quit when the going got tough.
DEBBIE got her interest in corruption after she noticed the consistent growth of the corrupt people who were trusted by the law to get rid of corruption in the first place. She hates a law twisting MAKOSHA (MK) who is turning this town into New York with her not-so-trustworthy-investigating habits. DEBBIE does some private investigating work with help from law firms, especially that of MARIUS. This is one reason why ERIC also knows about her. Jointly with SHARON and TASNEEM from MARIUS’ office, DEBBIE is able to work on political corruption cases. This partnership started with a win-win situation when they were working on separate cases that were indirectly related. They each needed something from the other. Trust was built as a result of this win-win situation. And it continues.
DI FRASER: The Judge
DI is a leading lady of the law in the high court of Johannesburg. She has been practicing law for the past two decades. She used to work with JONO The Judge at a certain law firm on an internship after studies. She is a firm ruler of the law and gives her sentencing generously, now of late. She used to believe in giving people a second chance and not allowing them too much prison time. Whenever she sentenced these boys and girls, no matter how small the sentence is, they would just come back to the society with more means to do damage. She learned from that mistake. Now she just wants to keep them in jail for as long as she can. She is harsh and terribly generous with her years of sentencing (min.25yrs). She earned herself a fearsome reputation in the general public and she likes that. However, deep down she is only serving the law. These days she only handles the cases of those who do more damage to society (heists and drug/people trafficking). She is the most trusted by the high court; hence she is a good friend with RUTH the Chief Justice. She often partners with CLAIRE when need be.
Dominique Gomes: Criminal Attorney @ Marius’ Office
DOMINIQUE is the one lady that puts LUCAS off his balance since she used to work in his firm and knows the dirty business involving ROWENA and the rebirth of their firm. MARIUS hired her for two reasons, one of which is her knowledge of the competition. The other being her ability to see the case through with absolute diligence. She know that she is used by MARIUS to satisfy his ego. Above that he is trying to get back at his former friend, LUCAS, for something in the past. But she does not worry about that. Her attention is mostly consumed by sharpening both her skills and those of the junior lawyers. She has her own ambition of getting out of the law practice and start her own beauty product shop. She admires the strength of the Pimptresses (HELEN, MANDY, and KIM) for venturing on something totally foreign to them and yet have so much success. She owns about ten percent of the MARIUS’ firm’s shares.
Eric Frank: The Mafia
ERIC is the man who’s done it all, paid for it and vanished. He is the underdog that disappeared with the Chileans fifteen years back thanks to the wrath of JONO The Judge. JONO thinks that ERIC died in those years, but he is going strong and is back in the neighbourhood to claim his respect. He is more of a fallen hero with a good cause. His goal is to become the hero by changing both Hillbrow and Soweto for the better. However, he is still linked to the underworld (a man’s gotta eat). He is the man of surprises. His central goal is to get back at JONO The Judge. Whether he gets him behind bars or gets him killed it really doesn’t matter.
ERIC has a totally gullible team of confused people who still treat him as they did back in the days when he was bad. Those are the days when he was at the gang of both JONO and JOHANVOS. Like Russians, this team keep as tightly loyal to him no matter how crazy the requests may be. They trust him with their lives as they believe he feels the same about them. This team is lead by IMRAAN, the spectator, who always tries to paint an impression that he and his crew are dangerous and badass people. ERIC is the brother to the late father of both MARIUS and ROWAN. He is currently their only family since their father died in the eighties.
ERIKA STAUNDACHER: Accounting Director
ERIKA is from a household of seven girls. Her six sisters are all successfully getting about their businesses. She is the last-born, but she grew up wanting to control instead of following after her sisters. She almost always has the controlling hand over men, which is one reason she finds herself successful today. She had her educational training at Wits University and started her moneymaking mission while she was in her second year.
She is currently dating LUCAS the attorney. She tries her best to control the guy, but he has his own stubborn nature. She thinks that she got him all figured out and will eventually get him under her arm. This is possible in a sense that he chooses to rather trust her before anyone. Even before his ‘most trusted’ attorney, ROWENA. When he is scared or nervous about something, ERIKA is the first person he talks to. She looses her temper sometimes, but she always finds a way to compose herself and show him the care that she feels for him. Her goal is to get the world to recognize that women are, indeed, taking over.
Eugene Davids: A Reborn Criminal
If there is one man who understands how hard it is to live after you give up the art of crime, it is EUGENE. He used to be a well-known criminal who did any criminal job from the small time ghetto jobs to the big cash and car heists in Limpopo. The number one reason he is well-known was that he drove the cars that inspired the guys to be like him. Another, which brings in the older fans too, was that he bought his mother a house with the money he made through his criminal endeavours. The people claim that he bought the house for cash. As dangerous as he may have been back then, he still had the best interest of his queen at heart. He showed this by providing to his mother ‘s needs with the most generous hand. In support of this fact about women, he does not believe in the concept of ‘fut en set’.
The reason he gave it all up was because he made a deal with the law after they arrested him. He had to sellout his friend to save himself. His friend was a wanted fugitive, who was creating mess everywhere he went. The police promised to take nothing from him as long as he gave them the details of this fugitive, LUNGILE. He did so and now he’s unemployable. Not only that, his ‘fans’ think he was bewitched by some sangoma. This is quite a satisfactory explanation to the simple-minded ghetto folks. Only he know the truth.
FAIZEL VAN WYK: The Owner Of Teazers Rivonia
FAIZEL is the middle child from a wealthy family that came up with the Jub-Jub candies in 1983. Both his siblings (one sister and one brother) got their tertiary education and are happily married. He is just a different child. He always ventured on strange life adventures. He spent a year and a half traveling through Asia with just a backpack and he used up all his savings. He was too proud to ask for help from his family and found a newspaper delivery job in Russia. Daddy had to go get him out of there after tracking him down through his own contacts. When FAIZEL came back he got a job with a Production Company that produces porn movies. He soon got tired of this because he just could not stand the tedious movie-making processes.
FAIZEL figured he should just get into the showgirl business and spare his family the humiliation they seem to have had when he tried his luck with the porn world. After a bit of struggling and confusion he went to Amsterdam for his “education in the business”. His father did not like the idea because of his previous experience with traveling. But he left anyway. He stayed there for two years. He came back home with enough power and influence to earn him the right to buy into the Teazers business. On top of being a hundred percent owner of the branch in Rivonia, FAIZEL is a twenty percent shareholder of the whole Gauteng Teazers business.
Frans de Villiers: Ngamla Stooks (Tsotsi)
FRANS is a man who works at the Hillbrow standard bank as the regular teller who counts and organize your shrunk hundred rand notes. He has not moved from this position for the past five years. He is both a loud and dark character at once with a generous smile. As far as he is concerned he is a good man. School was great back in the day. Then the world turned on him when both his parents past away. He quit school and every other thing that was important to him. He is mostly confused with criminals as he has the same choise of clothes as them. He would really like to get KIM as his girlfriend but he thinks she’s too for him. Therefore, she only remains his fantasy idol. His neurotic nature cannot help but stare at her whenever they are in the same room.
Working at the bank is the great opportunity in terms of selecting the people he would like to date someday. Alternatively, he thinks about LUCAS’ employees (“amaloya”) for they are all gorgeous and always smile whenever he is there. He hates JONO The Judge because of his corrupt behaviour. His best friend is the ever silent JAMES who is trying a career in acting. His other friend is EUGENE who is a former criminal.
Fred Benistant: The Clubmaster
If FRED cannot sell it by word of mouth, he can bribe you to buy it. This is the man that rubs shoulders with the ministers and presidents. He has a number of businesses including drugs (both legal and illegal), property and clubs. With regards to the drugs, he offers a combination of good and fake drugs. The trouble is with his suppliers as they are all in the East of Asia (or East of East as he likes to put it).He owns seven night clubs, two of which are in Soweto. He is renting some of LUCAS’ dodgy Hillbrow properties for four of his clubs.
Though a French man, FRED has no connection to France at all. He is the only family in South Africa and is close friend with a dubious local theatre director, SEAN. They go way back and… way bad at times. So far life is good for Fred though he was almost killed in Rockville when he just opened his club ‘The Rock’. He believes FRANS (Ngamla Stooks) was behind this. But can’t prove that.
FRED is extremely interested in the business run by MANDY, HELEN and KIM. He wants to work with them, but he has failed with his endeavours so far. He knows they owe ERIC, his banker or money launder, and he thinks he can use this information to get them on his side. He has a secret crush on HELEN and is shocked to realize that she wouldn’t even dare consider him like that.
GARRETH SKIBBE: SPECIAL AGENT
GARRETH is originally from a little town called Pucon in the south of Chile. He has been in Jozi from his early youth. He arrived with both MICHAEL and BEN, who were both from Putre, north of Chile. They all came to Africa in search of the Kimberly blood diamonds. First, they had to learn the English language, which cost them a lot of time. To buy some time, they had to disguise as the ‘special agents’ and work for the locals (JONO in this case) who gave them strange tasks. GARRETH learned most of his English from ERIC who was a really good friend. He believes he owes ERIC a great amount of loyalty as he receives only that from him. For this reason or another, GARRETH is betrayed by his fellow ‘brothers’ when they suddenly leave this country for better adventures. He suspects they may have found the blood diamonds and just didn’t want to share with him. Their sudden want to leave the country is all too confusing to him. But he does not really give a damn. Every man is for himself. He’s from the south and they are north guys. Who knows what goes on in the north of Chile anyway.
Gino Reagon: The Novice Cop
GINO is the only new officer at Captain ANDREW’s police station. GINO is very keen to learn everything. The trouble with that is that he wants to consume all the information at once, which usually results in a lot of confusion. He is ANTHEA’s ‘stuur-boy’ (the boy she can send around) and he likes it for it gives him that edge to feel like a responsible police officer. He is the only boy to his mother, BROWNWEN. She is as equally proud as he is about finally becoming a police officer. This is the reason she mostly comes to visit. She comes with her home baked cookies to give to all the police. ANDREW is not tolerant of GINO much, but he loves the cookies from his mom.
GINO’s mission is to impress the captain so he can be promoted to something good like a lieutenant. However, his problem is that he did not get proper training at the police academy. ANTHEA teaches GINO as much as she can, but the man is a bit of a slow learner. The other officers and people on the higher posts seem not to have time for a novice, if at all they notice him. This is the reason that he is usually in the presence of either ANTHEA or the Captain himself. According to his calculations, he is growing in this tough police job. And he is proud.
HAJIRAH DAWRAY: STUART’S Squizz and Business Lady
HAJIRAH resides in Orlando, within the vicinity of the two famous cooling towers. She has a spaza shop that’s currently growing into something that can actually be labeled as grocery store. She sometimes hangs out with CHRISTOBEL who has her own spaza shop. They usually talk about common problems and solutions with regards to their businesses. Unlike CHRISTOBEL, though, HAJIRAH got her spaza business from her parents. She got it at the point where she had to decide what she wants to do with her life after completing tertiary. Her parents have now own a NANDOS franchise in Southgate mall. Her spaza business has suffered a bit, but it’s going very well at the moment.
The only problem at the moment is the novice scientist who is taking her for granted. STUART met HAJIRAH before even starting the work between the two cooling towers. He used his trickery and charm to cast the spell that got her to love him instantly. At the moment the poor guy is freaked out at her. She means business and he has never been in a formal relationship before. Perhaps the future will answer to this conundrum between a novice scientist and a spaza entrepreneur.
HAYDN FAIRMAN: The Silent Master
HAYDN is a mysterious man with an exelent amount of loyalty to the deserving individuals like ERIC. This is an individual with no words to spare at all. He just turned up during the time IMRAAN was recruiting the new crew. He showed his skills: how to quickly paralyse a human body. He demonstrated to both IMRAAN and ERIC without so much as mentioning one word. They understood his message, just as SPENCER was about to collapse from his own voluteering. When asked questions he HAYDN confused by either the language or the reason for the questioning. What they figured about him is that he speaks with actions and they probably do not want to be on his bad side. It became apparent after a while that his actions are always preceded by his life-consuming glare that gets even big boys running for cover. IMRAAN convinced ERIC that they might need a no-questions guy some day. ERIC figured he should keep HAYDN closer to him for that very reason. A mafia needs a bodyguard anyway. HAYDN is tactful and very observant with regards to human behavior, which might explain why he chooses to keep his silence.
No one knows from whence he came. Only he knows that he is from a small country called Slovenia in the North of Italy. Apparently he left his country after understanding that the translation of Gauteng is gold. Therefore, he is here in search of gold and hasn’t seen any so far. IMRAAN claims that he once heard HAYDN’s speak the following words: ‘Živim v zlato mesto’ (Slovenian for ‘ I live in gold town). From the dialect he picked, IMRAAN has been claiming that HAYDN is from Russia.
HAYLEY DE VANTIER: Attorney In Training
HAYLEY is a final year law student at Wits University. She is currently working on her second article for LLB. She has worked hard all her years of undergrad with her mother’s help and she got A’s throughout. If there is a profession better than law, she is still to know it. She was influenced by the beauty and power that comes with law from as young as her first grade. She is the only child to her mother and she never met her dad. All she knows is that she has no father and her mother will not tell where he is or who he is. The best thing she learned from her mother is not to allow any man to take advantage of her, especially in this new generation.
After school she always went to her mother’s office where she could do her homework and learn something or two about the law. By the time she was ten years old she knew the whole costitutional procedure. At times she would influence her mother’s decision, especially when her mother was a Judge at Meadowlands court. These days she helps in her mother’s office and sharpens her own skills in the practice.
Helen Qually: The Boss Pimptress@Sandton
HELEN is the majority owner of a ladies-only pimping company: ‘Pimptress@Sandton’ Her onther partners are KIM and MANDY. Lead by ladies, run by ladies, employees are all ladies. This is a great business adventure since it targets men only. A lot of people, including LUCAS, confuse this company with the illegal prostitution companies of Hillbrow. Those are, of cause, ROWAN’s businesses. But people just can’t know until they are clients themselves. And for that to happen one needs to be ready to spend a lot of money. These ladies’ services are pretty exclusive and pricy. HELEN is the only one who has a clear understanding of how the so called competition works. This is the front face business for HELEN. It is a mystery as to what she is doing with the untrastworthy Harvard graduate, MK.
HELEN stays with her sister ANINE who is trying to become a TV producer. They live at a posh house in Brynston, North of Johannesburg. When ANINE gets a job with SEAN and has to work with SHAMEEMA, this becomes a bit of a problem for HELEN’s imagination. This is so because she has a romantic history with MARIUS, who is currently with SHAMEEMA.
Imraan Abader: The Spectator
The Spectator has a signature loud laughter; he is naturally boisterous and a little dubious in terms of creating an impression. When quiet he watches whatever that's happening around him, then he goes off on it. In other words he is a good observer and he is great at making the situation work best for him. In as much as he got the whole ‘Mafia’ thing wrong, he is a great team leader. He thinks himself as a serious man but he manages to say something funny at all times and confuse some of his crew members, especially SPENCER.
IMRAAN is always uneasy around the police and he claims he suffers from what he calls poliphobia (police-phobia). Often times people confuse that with polyphobia which is a sum of many phobias. If at all, he has a phobia of using the gun. He has been in the possession of a licensed pistol (.45 colt), but the man has never used it before. He is very happy to show it off, but that’s about it.
Ingrid Crowder: Criminal Attorney @ Lucas’ Office
INGRID is originally from Mamelodi, Pretoria and now living in Meadowlands Zone two, close to a circle with public service you can think of. She went to Oxford in the UK and came back to unemployment. Firms kept telling her two resounding facts: too qualified and potentially too expensive. She started doing all kinds of mediocrities just to get by. That lasted for only four months. She made a breakthrough in Hillbrow when she met LUCAS who was trying to get to her pants. He failed on his mission, she got the job. From day one in the firm she has been fruitful to such an extent that LUCAS gave up on getting to her pants, lest she buggers off to another firm. INGRID believes there is a code in everything to do with life. She seriously hate the religious talk and prefers to look at life and the Universe through the scientific point of view. She says science is what everyone should consider as a way of life in the stead of starting stupid things like religious wars.
Ivan Ayeliffe: The Accounting Kid
IVAN is MARIUS’ accounting genius who only wants to get involved for the fun of it. Not for the money, but because he loves numbers. He quit school because it was wasting his time. He learned all the numbers from the close couching of his father. After learning all he could he went to Hillbrow, his Las Vegas, to attempt on making a living there.
He is glowing with new business ideas at all times. MARIUS loves this kid because over the two years he’s known IVAN his financial world has been making sense, and the income is growing exponentially. However, MARIUS is careful not to show IVAN the bigger picture of wealth in case he is planning to leave him to build his own empire. IVAN is blindly loyal to MARIUS and has no plan to move… yet. Under MARIUS, IVAN has a team of skilled colleagues who are as follows: DAVE, SUE AND SUE, NICK, AND ALEX. They have a little office in Baragwanath hospital. They only see MARIUS three times a month. His law profession is taking a lot of time.
Jakkie Brink: The President
Jakkie is from a small family located in Greenvillage, which is on the West of Soweto. In her teen years nobody understood why she wanted to be a cop because that was a ‘no-pay’ job. Most of the kids around her had the varying ambitions of being engineers, accountants, entrepreneurs and so on. But she always knew that crime of this country will always be a problem until somebody takes a step.
She earned her name as The President through her persistent show of leadership skills over the years. She has both a loud personality and a firm controlling hand. These are her two major tools to get work done. As savvy and sarcastic as she may seem at most times, she's the lady most people would like to learn from. Even though she values her privacy, she makes it a point that she knows a bit of everyone else's personalities, particularly the new cops. She has tremendous faith about her work, and is always available to help others. Though she is not his favourite, she is the only one who can get Captain ANDREW to speak openly.
JAMES ARMSTRONG: The Actor
James is originally from Mzimhlophe (White House) on the East of Soweto. All his siblings are out of town having a life somewhere in their own spaces. For all he cares about he is the only one who understands his mother. He claims he is taking good care of her and he just can’t leave her alone. He truly believes in his acting ability, which hasn’t been put to use that much. He’s been to hundreds of auditions and got nothing. Educationally, he only has a two years training at the drama school. He is a stubborn man that’s ready to challenge anyone who criticize his acting. He met JEREMY in one of the auditions when he shot out of the room claiming the judges were a bunch of armatures. JEREMY invited him to SEAN’s production. SEAN liked the abstract quality of his acting ability and took him in. For the first time in history, his acting will be put to a great use. He totally likes the ideas of PETER BROOK. But still he complains about wasting his talent by acting with a bunch of armatures. Poor JEREMY has to hear these words on a daily bases. CLAUDIA, BABA and SHAMEEMA do not like this guy who thinks he is an acting expert.
JARED BARBE: The Truck Driver Entrepreneur
JARED is a simple man with simple needs. He simply drives one of his own (ten) trucks for a living. He makes a fortune out of this business adventure. He inherited this business from his father after he past on. JARED was busy with his final year in the police academy when his father past away. The two were getting along very well but had one major difference. His father wanted him to take over the family business of trucks (two at that time) and he just wanted a career in the police force. He was in the same class with the current Captain ANDREW, who used to skip classes in those days.
After an extended amount of consideration and self-examination he finally convinced himself to take on the business. Besides, the two trucks were not doing anyone any good parked at the back of his house. He chose to always be hands on like his father, no matter how big the company grows. He believes in hiring smart people for his business and keep himself on the very base of the company operations. He grew the business from his father’s two construction trucks to the ten retail transportation trucks. He does not do many long distances, but every two months he wants to get out of the country and drive all the way to Zambia, Namibia, even the former Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). For the rest of the time he works around Joburg so he can be close to his new family. He married a year ago and just had a new baby boy. JARED never met his mother. All he knows from his dad is that his mother got cold feet about marriage and got back to her home in Berlin, Germany.
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