The new Ganda Ganda
SK Khoza joins the saucy cast working in The Black Door and gives us a look into his character Sabelo.
Mam Rebs’s (Linda Sebezo) Black Door brothel has suffered since she lost her star attraction and cash cowboy Khaya (Zamani Mbatha) recently to start his own bus business. But she’s not going down without a fight and lured him back in explosive fashion by blowing up his bus. But Khaya’s return sees him clashing with his “replacement” and The Black Door’s new Ganda Ganda – Sabelo (Sthembiso “SK” Khoza, Shaka on The Queen, see p37 ). “Sabelo is a young attractive man ready to show his skills, but more than being just gifted with giving pleasure, he may be a match to Mam Reb’s evil ways,” warns SK.
A STORY OF VENGEANCE
“Sabelo is there to learn the ins and outs of business so that he can take over. He is psychotic. He is willing to sleep with men, women, have threesomes, orgies and strip too,” says SK, emphasising how eager his character is to climb to the top. And he’s got inside knowledge of the boss: Mam Rebs is his ex-stepmom. “He’s there to avenge his late father (not onscreen). There are moments where you find him at his apartment planning out exactly what he wants to do with Black Door; it is very exciting,” says SK.
Sabelo is described as “a camp metrosexual who is well groomed”, but actor SK is cautious about opening the door too wide on what will be coming. “He’s going to steal Khaya’s throne. It doesn’t take long for Mam Rebecca to realise that she can’t let him get away either and makes him sign his soul away in an official contract.”
UNTRUSTWORTHY UPSTART
“You will see Sabelo smile to a person at the club, then turn and show disgust. He is two-faced,” says SK. But Sabelo comes as a saving grace to Romeo (Mzamo Gcabashe), Black Door’s manager who just wants to make Mam Rebs proud and the business a success.
And it seems there’s possible chemistry between Sabelo and Romeo. “I’m not sure if there will be a love interest affair because he’s trying to play mindgames with everyone, but the character is a flirt even though he doesn’t want to lead Romeo on. Being a flirt gets him in trouble,” adds SK. And he’s no stranger to the sex world – SK suffered real-life drama recently when a sex-tape of him and a woman went viral online. “As South Africans, we can be hypocritical. We’re okay with watching Americans have sex and be nude but the minute we do it it’s a problem,” says the actor.