Skeem Saam's' Elizabeth Serunye: I'm not as serious as Jacobeth'

Skeem Saam's' Elizabeth Serunye: I'm not as serious as Jacobeth'Actress Elizabeth Serunye, who plays Principal Jacobeth Thobakgale in Skeem Saam' says she's more relaxed than her character.

by Rae Seleme

22-08-2022 02:24

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Skeem Saam' actress Elizabeth Serunye. Image via Facebook @MzansiWatch

Fan-favourite Skeem Saam actress Elizabeth Serunye, who plays Turflooop High's former principal Jacobeth Thobakgale in the soapie says she is a more relaxed piano-loving boy mom in real life.

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OFFICIAL Skeem Saam 11 (@SkeemSaam3) August 16, 2022

ELIZABETH SERUNYE: I AM NOT AS HARSH AS JACOBETH THOBAKGALE The award-winning actress Elizabeth Serunye, who's been playing the character of Principal Jacobeth Thobakgale in Skeem Saam for a decade tells Drum Magazine that she enjoys playing the character.

I enjoy playing principal Thobakgale but I am not as serious or as harsh as she is, she says with a chuckle.

Her character who's been a principal at Turfloop High School from season one recently got demoted to a teacher.

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Viewers were saddened by her demotion as Thobakgale's aim was to achieve excellent matric results and for past pupils to do well in their chosen fields.

She is very ambitious and she loves to see progress. She has a good heart and she always wants the school to have a 100% matric pass rate. I have learned a lot from this character because her integrity and honesty are unmatched. She also always fights for what she believes is right and those are great attributes to have.

Her character is also a single who is raising her daughter Lizzy (played by Amanda Manku) who is a doctor.

Bo Thobakgale are the Bantu Education types that are strict and do not want to have difficult conversations with their children. That's where we differ.

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OFFICIAL Skeem Saam 11 (@SkeemSaam3) August 18, 2022

HOW SHE'S DIFFERENT FROM HER SKEEM SAAM' CHARACTER The actress Elizabeth Serunye says in real life she sits down with her boys and they have frank conversations about everything.

I talk openly about everything, including sex, and how they must prioritise safety first. We speak the same language, and they are my friends. I think I am also a boy now because even the music I listen to is not what society expects from a woman my age.

Bona, it's slap n tap and piano all the way. Maphorisa and Kabza De Small do it for me. Even when I am driving you will find me pumping Umsholozi and people get shocked and say hau ma-oledy' and I say dala what you must because this is what I enjoy, she says.

She's a very precise person. She takes time to analyse situations.

I really take time and assess things in my own way. Even if you clap me, I will not get angry immediately. I will sit and analyze what happened and try to figure out why you did what you did and I could get angry after two months. I try to understand why people do the things they do before I react.

Serunye who's been in the industry for 31 years reveals she had a seven-year spell where she used to sell food on the side of the road in Alexandra. At the time she had certificates in reception and in banking law, but nothing was working out.

I had been acting in theatre for years and it was the early days of trying to get into TV, but it wasn't easy. My mother was a street vendor who, over the years, sold everything from clothes to amagwinya and fruit. So, when life hit me hard I knew I couldn't just sit and wait for my big break .

I would wake up at 4 am to make sure that I am on the side of the road by 4.45 am. It was not easy, but I provided for my family by selling homemade buns and scones. My pride wouldn't let me go back to my mother to ask for money for bread and roll on.

The seven-year spell happened between 2001 and 2008. Serunye had a small role in Generations in 2006 until she got her big break happened in 2008 as Mapaseka Montsho on SABC2's comedy show Moferefere Lenyalong, from 2008 to 2012.

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