Fan-favourite Skeem Saam actress Elizabeth Serunye, who performs Turflooop High’s former principal Jacobeth Thobakgale within the soapie says she is a extra relaxed piano-loving boy mother in actual life.
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ELIZABETH SERUNYE: “I AM NOT AS HARSH AS JACOBETH THOBAKGALE”
The award-winning actress Elizabeth Serunye, who’s been taking part in the character of Principal Jacobeth Thobakgale in Skeem Saam for a decade tells Drum Magazine that she enjoys taking part in the character.
“I enjoy playing principal Thobakgale but I am not as serious or as harsh as she is,” she says with a chuckle.
Her character who’s been a principal at Turfloop High School from season one not too long ago bought demoted to a trainer.
Viewers have been saddened by her demotion as Thobakgale’s intention was to attain wonderful matric outcomes and for previous pupils to do effectively of their chosen fields.
“She is very ambitious and she loves to see progress. She has a good heart and she always wants the school to have a 100% matric pass rate. I have learned a lot from this character because her integrity and honesty are unmatched. She also always fights for what she believes is right and those are great attributes to have.”
Her character can be a single who’s elevating her daughter Lizzy (performed by Amanda Manku) who’s a physician.
“Bo Thobakgale are the Bantu Education types that are strict and do not want to have difficult conversations with their children. That’s where we differ.”
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HOW SHE’S DIFFERENT FROM HER ‘SKEEM SAAM’ CHARACTER
The actress Elizabeth Serunye says in actual life she sits down along with her boys they usually have frank conversations about all the things.
“I talk openly about everything, including sex, and how they must prioritise safety first. We speak the same language, and they are my friends. I think I am also a boy now because even the music I listen to is not what society expects from a woman my age.”
“Bona, it’s slap ‘n tap and piano all the way. Maphorisa and Kabza De Small do it for me. Even when I am driving you will find me pumping Umsholozi and people get shocked and say ‘hau ma-oledy’ and I say ‘dala what you must because this is what I enjoy,” she says.
She’s a really exact individual. She takes time to analyse conditions.
“I really take time and assess things in my own way. Even if you clap me, I will not get angry immediately. I will sit and analyze what happened and try to figure out why you did what you did and I could get angry after two months. I try to understand why people do the things they do before I react.”
Serunye who’s been within the business for 31 years reveals she had a seven-year spell the place she used to promote meals on the aspect of the highway in Alexandra. At the time she had certificates in reception and in banking regulation, however nothing was figuring out.
“I had been acting in theatre for years and it was the early days of trying to get into TV, but it wasn’t easy. My mother was a street vendor who, over the years, sold everything from clothes to amagwinya and fruit. So, when life hit me hard I knew I couldn’t just sit and wait for my big break”.
“I would wake up at 4 am to make sure that I am on the side of the road by 4.45 am. It was not easy, but I provided for my family by selling homemade buns and scones. My pride wouldn’t let me go back to my mother to ask for money for bread and roll on.”
The seven-year spell occurred between 2001 and 2008. Serunye had a small function in Generations in 2006 till she bought her massive break occurred in 2008 as Mapaseka Montsho on SABC2’s comedy present Moferefere Lenyalong, from 2008 to 2012.
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