{"id":110209,"date":"2019-10-14T11:55:43","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T10:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buzzsouthafrica.com\/?p=110209"},"modified":"2019-10-14T12:05:05","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T11:05:05","slug":"adventures-of-noko-mashaba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buzzsouthafrica.com\/adventures-of-noko-mashaba\/","title":{"rendered":"All You Must Know About The Adventures of Noko Mashaba"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Adventures of Noko Mashaba is one of the most popular animated black comedy series from South Africa. With Noko Mashaba as its main fictional character, the South African sociopolitical satire was inspired by the adult-rated American animated comedy, South Park. And just like South Park, The Adventures of Noko Mashaba also has a tongue-in-cheek disclaimer which says that: “All characters and events in the following clip\u2014even those based on real people\u2014are entirely fictional. All celebrity voices are impersonated… Poorly.”<\/p>\n
The show began in early 2013 and first premiered on YouTube with an episode called “Noko & the Famous Venda Tree”. The episode was based on a mythological tree from the deep ends of Venda, South Africa, which supposedly extends men’s penises if planted in the right manner. However, the show first gained prominence after its episode,\u00a0 “Noko in High School” was released. Since then, it has won a few awards and has become one of the most-watched comedy videos in South Africa.<\/p>\n
Noko Mashaba, who is voiced by Jonas Lekganyane, the show’s creator, is the main character of the show. Mashaba is a regular guy who occasionally goes out on various adventures to solve mysteries while portraying the lives of both past and present real-life South African personalities, reliving different incidents that have occurred in the country and sometimes elsewhere.<\/p>\n
The character is very humorous, but yet very audacious. His biological parents were political activists during the South African apartheid era. He never really got to meet them as no one knows what happened to them during that time. He was, in turn, raised by his grandmother and has lived a horrid life, often finding himself in between jobs, a challenge familiar with many.<\/p>\n
Noko Mashaba who most times appears as a police officer sometimes finds himself as the president\u2019s right-hand man or a Barber in his Barber\u2019s Shop. He is always spotted with his sidekicks; Phusu or Mthembu. He also has an uncle in the show called Uncle Dons.<\/p>\n
Phusu is Noko Mashaba’s sidekick and is a graduate of the Loying University (a fictional university), which is the same university Noko\u2019s grandmother graduated from. They both have a degree in Loying Engineering, giving them the ability and knowledge of sorcery. In the series, Phusu combines science and sorcery to solve difficult problems, which makes him a remarkably exceptional Sangoma.<\/p>\n
Mthembu is a short and chubby fellow with big eyes and also Noko’s mute cop partner. Although he is a very smart but quiet character, he always finds himself in situations he shouldn\u2019t be in, but Noko always comes to his rescue. Mthembu has been featured on several episodes of the show and all those episodes, he has never said a single word. He only cares to arrest the bad guys and go home.<\/p>\n
Another interesting character in this animation series is Noko\u2019s uncle, Donald Mashaba. Also known as uncle Dons, Donald is a greedy and stubborn man. He is mostly unemployed but enjoys the company of various women. Uncle Dons has fourteen children from five different women and always struggles with their up-keep.<\/p>\n
He was introduced into the show in the episode South African President Jacob Zuma and a painting of him called The Spear. Uncle Dons has gone ahead to appear in his own show titled The Dons Show. It premiered with an episode inspired by a true story about a man from the province of KwaZulu-Natal who claimed to be the reincarnation of Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n
And last but not least, it would not be right if we talk of Noko Mashaba and not mention his high school sweetheart, Mahlodi. She is a very independent lady from a rich home and most times finds herself getting Noko out of tight situations. Mahlodi believes in the equality between men and women both at work and in relationships. She sometimes uses such uses that power to win gender equality arguments against Mashaba.<\/p>\n