Mzansi Magic Telenovela Highlights This Week: Kuningi Premieres, Inimba Secrets Explode
Mzansi Magic Telenovela Highlights This Week: Kuningi Premieres, Inimba Secrets Explode
Telenovela Highlights Update 18-24 May 2026
Mzansi Magic (DStv Channel 161) and Mzansi Wethu (DStv Channel 163) are serving another week of high-stakes drama and life-changing decisions. From dangerous secrets and shifting loyalties to courtroom chaos and matters of the heart, viewers are in for some real drama. Plus, the Monday night mini-series slot continues with the premiere of Kuningi, a powerful story of love, resilience and second chances.
Here’s what’s coming up this week:
INIMBA – Mon-Fri @ 20:30
This week on Inimba, Azande (Siya Raymond) turns a well-crafted family lie into a weapon and tightens his grip. Meanwhile, Zoleka (Lunathi Mampofu) realises she is no longer in control of the game and the cost of the truth begins to rise. Zethu (Mpumie Khuzwayo) risks everything for a connection she can’t ignore and reality shifts in a way she cannot escape. Azande pushes beyond the limits placed on him. A secret explodes and nothing survives the fallout while Lazarus (Loyiso McDonald) begins to move in the shadows.
Link: https://youtu.be/rVvH1DmHbKg
HOMECOMING – Mon–Fri @ 18:30
This week on Homecoming,
Sifiso (Thembinkosi Mthembu) chooses Zethu (Six Nyamane) over date night with MaNkwanyane (Shine Madela). Meanwhile, MaNkwanyane decides she wants to make peace between herself and Zethu before the wedding, but is it a true peace? Sphamandla (Selwande Mbuli) piles more pressure on Phindile. Meanwhile, Shobane (Mpilo Mbatha) confronts a harsh truth about starting his own practice but finds comfort in an unexpected ally. MaNkwanyane’s actions begin to haunt her as MaNgcobo (Amahle Khumalo) and Sifiso take action.
Link: https://youtu.be/ajzM6X1jY0Y
LAW, LOVE & BETRAYAL S2
Episode 12: Sunday, 24 May: MODUS VIVENDI (Way of living)
When an old case comes back to haunt Gatsha (Nimrod Nkosi), he takes steps that gets him and his family into trouble with the law. Gumede & Associates represent a man who wants parental rights to a child that was conceived through sexual assault.
Monday Mini-Series
Kuningi – Monday 18 May @ 19:00
Kuningi tells the story of Mbali (Samkelo Ndlovu), a bright young law student with big dreams, who discovers that she is pregnant and chooses love over certainty, believing her boyfriend Mandla (Kay Sibiya) will stand beside her. Instead, he vanishes without a trace, leaving her to face motherhood and a shattered future alone. Now raising her son Sihle while working as a domestic worker and running a small event-planning hustle from her garage, Mbali is fighting to build a better life for them both until her luck turns when she gets a lucrative contract.
