But over and above that, the books have given me so much financial freedom, also being able to have an impact as someone who is now influential.”Īpart from giving professional talks, she also adds that she has made it her mandate to give talks to schools in impoverished places to encourage reading. I just reconnected with myself recently, to the Dudu that I was before the books. “I had a huge breakdown because I felt that I did not exist outside the Hlomu series and had to go to therapy. So much so that she felt that she started to lose herself and could not recognise herself outside of the books. She shares that Hlomu The Wife is still flying off the shelves.īusani-Dube describes her writing as very simple, a word she also uses to describe herself.Īnd as her books blew up, her life changed drastically. It then grew bigger each year,” she said, adding that she did not anticipate that the hype would still linger eight years later.

I decided to blog the first three chapters on Wordpress and it blew up. Reading was also really not a culture within this community that I was writing for. Its success was so immediate, especially in a time when fiction books about black people were really not popular. “When I penned the first book Hlomu The Wife, I did not see things unfolding this way. Therefore, we’re going to have to wait a while to see if this relationship survives Mqhele’s abusive ways and the Zulu brother’s big secret which they seem to want to keep under wraps at all costs.Īfter a family meeting about Hlomu and Mqhele’s relationship with the brothers, Mqhele assures the Zulu’s that he will handle the situation.Busani-Dube graduated from Durban University of Technology in 2003 and has enjoyed a 14-year-long journalism career that ended in 2018. Upon realising that Hlomu is a journalist in the latest episodes of Showmax telenovela The Wife, and that she is currently investigating the ongoing cash-in-transit heists that the Zulu brothers are involved in, the family’s oldest brother Nkosana issues a directive that may see Hlomu and Mqhele’s relationship come to an end.Ī defiant Mqhele immediately registers his opposition to this suggestion and insists that he will forge on with his plans to marry his love.Īlthough the telenovela is based on the first three books in the Hlomu series by Dudu Busani Dube, the first season is setting the tone for the story by focusing on Hlomu and Mqhele’s relationship.

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