The first episode of kykNET’s highly anticipated Afrikaans version of the The Real Housewives franchise, Die Real Housewives van Pretoria (RHOPTA), aired on Thursday night and although the show is in Afrikaans, Tweeps can’t get enough of it.
While the introductions were pretty civilised as first meetings between strangers go, the housewives wasted no time baring their teeth at the first get-together where they were all introduced to each other.
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In the first episode, TikTok content creator Kiki La Coco heads to Pretoria to find a new family home for her family. Her trip from Mpumalanga, where she lives with her multi-millionaire husband Malcolm Wentzel, and their housekeeper, Thembi Ubisi, finds herself in Silverlakes at Renske Lammerding’s home for coffee.
The two women chat about what type of people live in Silverlakes as Kiki wants to move to an area with ‘lekker mense’. After coffee, Renske takes Kiki to Tammy Taylor Nails to meet Mel Viljoen. The blonde, who is the president of Tammy Taylor Nails South Africa is married to the notorious lawyer Peet Viljoen, the CEO of Tammy Taylor Nails.
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Mel and Peet don’t live in Silverlakes, however, they live in Woodhill Estate, which Mel says is just so much cleaner and better than Silverlakes as they even steam clean the pavements in the estate – every morning.
Although Kiki pulled no punches when Renske introduced her to Mel – saying she recognised her from Carte Blanche – the two blondes immediately clicked.
Kiki then invites Mel to tag along to Renske’s Stokvel evening at her home.
The evening doesn’t start on a good note as Mel and Kiki arrive late, which irritates the other housewives who felt they were disrespectful.
After the Stokvel discussions, the women sit around the dining room table drinking coffee when Mel starts firing off questions that clearly makes everyone around the table uncomfortable.
From accusing the Silverlakes residents of writing her husband (Peet) off and asking who the ‘wife is who inherited and doesn’t really have money’ – referring to Marié Bosman, the pastor. The conversation soon gets very heated.
Tune in every Thursday at 8pm, on kykNET (DStv Channel 144), to see what the women get up to next.
