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Lithapo is a Sesotho telenovela

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Lithapo is about Nolo, a young man from Qwaqwa in search for his father in the city, as he navigates romance and revenge, while smashing the patriarchy within toxic masculinity, in the midst of post-Apartheid hashtag protest, and the corrupt world of urban property development gentrification, whilst exploring the complex lives of the ordinary working class people in Alex, as well as affluent Sandton moguls, all caught in the middle of an inevitable dawning of change.

On top of the rolling hills of the Qwaqwa mountains, a woman dies in the middle of the night, at the hands of cattle thieves, while trying to save her humble herd. In the wake of her funeral, her son NOLO, learns secrets about his mother that she had hoped to take to her grave, about the lover that had left her behind. So Nolo goes on a journey to find the man he never knew as his father - the successful city slicker who wanted nothing to do with him...