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Hlengiwe Lushaba

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Hlengiwe Lushaba is a South African actress and choreographer best known for replacing Mbali Ntuli in the role of Khetiwe for the third and fourth seasons of the SABC1 drama series Gaz'lam.

She is also known for featuring in the SABC1 reality series Life's a Stage, which documents the cast of the play Trapped as they go to the Grahamstown and Saltzburg theatre festivals.

Hlengiwe studied Theatre, Dance, Singing and Acting at Technikon Natal, now known as Durban University of Technology, and won the FNB Vita Award for Most Promising Dancer in 2002.

As a choreographer, she has presented many works including her first performance art piece called Sacrament created in 2001. This was followed by It's not over Until the Fit Fat Phat Lady Sings and Is This Africa and Put a Cross on the Appropriate Woman.

In 2006, she received the Standard Bank Award and presented Ziyakhipha Come Dance With Us at the Grahamstown Festival. For this work, she received the Gauteng MEC award for the Most Remarkable Original Choreographic Work.

Her work Lest We Forget was created in 2007 and showcased at the Johannesburg Dance Umbrella festival. Outside of this work, she is also a singer, songwriter and actress.

She has appeared in many theatrical shows, including Far from the Madding Crowd, Lost in the Stars, Hairspray, African Queens, And the Girls in Their Sunday Dresses, Touch my Blood, Modus Vivendi.

She also worked with Alain Buffard on Baron Samedi and Princess Mhlongo on Trapped.


Television Roles

Show

Character

God Heka (as Hlengiwe Lushaba Madlala)

Khethiwe

Khethiwe

Guest Star

Primrose

Herself

MaMdabe Mchunu (as Hlengiwe Lushaba Madlala)

MaMchunu (as Hlengiwe Lushaba-Madlala)

MaMchunu (as Hlengiwe Lushaba-Madlala)

Celeste

Mmapaseka

Mmapaseka


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