‘I HATED SCHOOL’
WHILE she is now celebrated as one of Zimbabwe’s abwe’s greatest upcoming small screen een talents, life was not always so glamorous for Bulawayo’s
Mbo Mahocs, hocs, who recalls the time she spent away from cameras and microphones nes while at school as the most agonising nising in her life.
Mahocs made her debut on e-TV’s soapie Scandal andal in the past few weeks to much praise, raise, with arts practitioners tipping their eir hats to an actress who seems to have defied the odds and penetrated d the dog eat dog world of South h African television.
For those se that saw her take baby aby steps on the Bulawayo ulawayo arts scene, e, Mbo was just another talented and ambitious girl in the City ity of Kings trying ng to juggle school chool and the arts. ts.
In an interview on Capitalk this week however, wever, Mbo revealed vealed that she dreaded her time at school, particularly ly her first few weeks. eeks.
“I wasn’t n’t up for it in the beginning. I hated it. Sitting itting in the classroom, , I felt so out of place. I remember people around round me would say ‘you don’t belong here’. ere’. I don’t know why, hy, maybe it’s the way that I used to dress ess because I had a very quirky dress sense. nse. Maybe it was because cause I was naturally creative or I was rebelling because sometimes you rebel and it comes out in little things g that you don’t realise yourself,” she said.
Mahocs, who studied a architecture at the Bulawayo Polytechnic P College, revealed th that this was not her passion to begin with initially.
“After I completed my high school, scho I knew that I wanted to study something towards dramatic arts. That’s Th when I actually moved from f home. This was around 200 2008 after my A-levels. I went to So South Africa and I was trying to study stu but the fees were too expensive expensive.
“So I think I stayed there for something like four years then I returned home hom because my dad felt that things weren’t wo working out for me so he h suggested that I just come c home and we try something else. So I went back home an and when I was hom home, because my father is in that field, he just jus suggested that I try and study architecture, architecture,” she said.
According to the multi-talente multi-talented actress, she had to be forced to enrol at Bulawayo Polytechnic by h her father.
“I went to register at Bulawayo P Polytechnic. Someone act actually had to drag me ther there. My dad had to organise one of my cousin brothers to actually drive me there because I didn’t feel like it. it After my first year, I did well in my subjects, I felt hey, he maybe I could do this and t that’s when I went on to my se second year. I think I stuck aroun around for three -four years and that that’s when I moved to SA,” she said.