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Vallei van Sluiers

Genres: Drama
Broadcast on: kykNET, kykNET & kie, eExtra

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Seasons

Season 1

Channel Premiere Finale TX Time Episodes
kykNET 20 Apr 2010 13 Jul 2010 Tuesdays, 20h00 - 21h00 13
kykNET & kie 13 Apr 2016 06 Jul 2016 Wednesdays, 20h30 - 21h30 13
eExtra 17 Mar 2019 09 Jun 2019 Sundays, 19h00 - 20h00 13


Season 1

Vallei van Sluiers (Valley of Veils) is a South African, Afrikaans-language television drama series which revolves around three well-known Boland fruit farming families - the De Bruyns, the Roberts' and the Van Rhijns - and the people who are drawn into their disasters, quarrels and scandals.

Set behind the 'fruit curtain' in the Ceres Valley, the series lifts the lid on what is brewing in the Boland.

Gradually, the secrets of the three land barons - Con De Bruyn, Boykie Roberts and Markus van Rhijn - are peeled off and exposed.

All three families have been plagued by tragedies over the years. Con's wife, Frederika, died of cancer at a young age. Con raised the boys to the best of his abilities, well supported by Oom Boykie and Ta'Effie Roberts.

And when the kids were grown up and independent, Con suddenly realised he was alone and middle-aged. First, the sporting and fruitcutter circles in which he was moving were enough of a diversion, but gradually he became more and more aware of his desire for togetherness and camaraderie.

The Van Rhijns also had setbacks. Markus and Emmarentia van Rhijn have only one child, Monique. Emmarentia's second pregnancy, which was terminated after four months of complications, ended with the news that she could never bear children again, which left Markus without a male heir.

The hopes of building the Van Rhijn name took a hit in the '70s when Markus's younger brother, Bertus, went missing in Angola.

After their father's death, the two brothers were named the joint heirs of the enormous fruit estate. After 10 years, Markus went to court and obtained a certificate of confirmation in which Bertus was declared presumably dead, thus making him the sole owner of Van Rhijnshoek.

Oom Boykie and Ta'Effie had two young boys, a few years younger than the De Bruyn boys. One Sunday afternoon, the two, Ryan and Richard, drowned in a mountain lake. With them was Beulah, their younger sister.

Their bodies were taken out of the lake the next morning. As a result of the shock, Beulah lost her speech, went into hallucinatory hysteria every now and then and was regularly plagued by severe nightmares.

Oom Boykie and Ta'Effie saw the opportunity to help Con with raising Hugo and Jacques as a gift from above to help them get over Ryan and Richard's death.

On the surface life is peaceful and quiet in the Valley... but with a new generation coming into control of family interests, the dead who "rise up" from the grave and with old uncles and aunts who can no longer feed themselves, the secrets and bitterness of the past decades slowly but surely come to the surface... with surprising consequences.

Vallei van Sluiers is a kykNET Production produced by Baobab TV Produksies (first two seasons) and Quantum Productions (last two seasons) for kykNET. The series was written by Johan van Jaarsveld and Louis Pretorius and directed by Elizabeth Archer.

Johan van Jaarsveld and Dini Nondumo were producers on the first season and the supervising producer for kykNET was Marida Swanepoel. Music was by Craig Ormond.

Season 1 Cast

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Starring

At Botha		...	Con de Bruyn
Nico Panagio		...	Jacques de Bruyn
Sophia Passerini	...	Hannah de Bruyn
Christian Kain		...	Connie de Bruyn
Stian Bam		...	Hugo de Bruyn
Marko van der Colff	...	Markus van Rhijn
Michele Burgers		...	Emma van Rhijn
Jana Fischer		...	Monique van Rhijn
André Rossouw		...	Boykie Roberts
Lida Botha		...	Ta' Effie Roberts
Tinarie van Wyk-Loots	...	Beulah Roberts (as Tinarie van Wyk Loots)
Albert Maritz		...	Bertho Lopez
Yvonne van den Bergh	...	Chloe Breedt
Anton Treurnich		...	Luke Breedt (as Anton Treurnicht)
Crystal-Donna Roberts	...	Charmaine Willemse (as Crystal Donna Roberts)
Brendon Daniels		...	JP Willemse
Erica Wessels		...	Deirdre Mohr

Recurring / Guests

Susanne Beyers		...	Miems de Beer
Hannes van Wyk		...	Harm le Roux
Jacqui Pickering	...	Maria Celeste Lopez
Charl Timotheus		...	Bertito Lopez


Season 1 Cast

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Con de Bruyn

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Jacques de Bruyn

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Hannah de Bruyn

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Connie de Bruyn

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Hugo de Bruyn

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Markus van Rhijn

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Emma van Rhijn

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Monique van Rhijn

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Boykie Roberts

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Ta' Effie Roberts

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Beulah Roberts (as Tinarie van Wyk Loots)

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Bertho Lopez

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Chloe Breedt

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Luke Breedt (as Anton Treurnicht)

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Charmaine Willemse (as Crystal Donna Roberts)

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JP Willemse

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Deirdre Mohr

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Harm le Roux

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Maria Celeste Lopez

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Bertito Lopez

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Miems de Beer


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