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Egoli: Place of Gold

1992

A South African television soap opera created by Franz Marx which revolves around the daily ups, downs, trials and tribulations of a handful of families in and around Johannesburg (which is often referred to as eGoli - the City of Gold)

Mandi du Plooy

Cast · Known for Diepe Waters

Mandi du Plooy, also known as Mandi Baard, is a South African actress, model and voice artist. She is best known for her role as "Lara" in the M-Net soap opera Egoli: Place of Gold as well as soapies, Binnelanders, 7de Laan and Getroud Met Rugby. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in Business management at the University of Stellenbosch. She is married to Schalk Baard, where the wedding was held on 5 April 2008, in George, SA. The couple has one boy and one girl.

Tiffany Kelly

Cast · Known for Egoli: Place of Gold

Tiffany Kelly is a South African actress best known for her starring role as Sonet Vorster Naude, Niek's feisty wife, in the M-Net soap opera Egoli: Place of Gold, from 1992-2010. She also appeared in the M-Net soap opera Binneland: Sub Judice, in 2010; and had a guest starring role int he SABC2 drama series Song vir Katryn.

Cindy Swanepoel

Cast · Known for Binnelanders

Cindy Swanepoel is a South African actress. She is best known for her roles in the popular serials Generations, Binnelanders and Egoli: Place of Gold.

Shaleen Surtie-Richards

Cast · Known for Egoli: Place of Gold, Villa Rosa

Shaleen Surtie-Richards was a South African television, stage, and film actress, perhaps best known for her starring roles in the 1988 film Fiela se Kind and the long-running series Egoli: Place of Gold. She performed in both Afrikaans and English.

Cobus Visser

Cobus Visser was a South African actor, voice artist and translator who has acted in numerous theatre productions, feature films and television series. He was born in 1949 and completed his school career in Upington in the Northern Cape. He completed his drama training at the University of Pretoria and was a member of Performing Arts Councils in Bloemfontein and Pretoria in the 1970s. In 1976 he joined the SABC as a freelance translator, sync translator, dubbing director and actor. During these years he attended master classes in Los Angeles at the renowned Lee Strasberg Method School of Acting on several occasions with actors such as Al Pacino and Shelly Winters as guest lecturers. Several study tours followed in places like England and Germany, the latter under the guidance of friend and teacher Professor Wolfgang von Stas, who was attached to the University of Koblenz and later Saarbrücken. Stage highlights since 1975 include The Rainmaker, Bobaas van de Boendoe (André P Brink), Hamlet, Plaston DNS child (P.G. du Plessis) and many more. He also acted in films such as Die Square, Fiela se Kind, Die Storie van Klara Viljee, Promised Land, Oh Schuks ... I'm Gatvol!, Vaatjie Sien sy Gat, Hond se Dinges, Stoute Boudjies, Platteland, Die Ballade van Robbie de Wee, Agent 2000: Die Laksman and Die Rebellie van Lafras Verwey. Cobus acted in numerous television series, including Die Avonture van Joachim Verwey, Onder Draai die Duiwel Rond, Die Vierde Kabinet, Sterk Skemer, Amalia, Dryfsand, Die Uwe Pottie Potgieter, Moeggeploeg, Molly & Wors, Vetkoek Paleis, Swartwater, The Docket and Huis Lelieveld. He also acted in a number of soap operas including Generations, 7de Laan, Villa Rosa, Egoli: Place of Gold, Ashes to Ashes and Binnelanders. He spent several years as a writer for soapies such as Egoli and Villa Rosa. Cobus was also known for his vocal work on numerous soundtracks, and did a lot of translation work for television programs and films, mostly from English and German to Afrikaans. He died on Monday 28 October, 2019, of heart failure. He was 70.

Natasja Jacobs

Natasja Jacobs (born in 20 Aug 1979) is a South African actress and radio DJ best known for her role as the feisty Rita on the SABC2 soap opera 7de Laan, from 2005-2006. Other television series she has acted in include Song vir Katryn (2003 - 2004), Egoli (2003 - 2004), Your Moves, Hart van Staal (2005), Society (2007), Villa Rosa (2007 - 2008), The Lab (2008), Fotostories, Isidingo (1998) and Binnelanders (2009 -2010) (2016 - 2017).

Mary-Ann Barlow

Mary-Ann Barlow is a South African theatre, television and film actress best known for her role as Egoli super-bitch Coreen Edwards, from 1997-2003. She is best known to international audiences for her starring role as Vanessa in the British television drama series Wild at Heart, since 2009. Born in 1973 in Harare, Zimbabwe, Barlow received a Diploma in Dramatic Art which she studied for from 1995-1997. She has had supporting roles in movies like Last Rites of Passage and Cape of Good Hope, and lead roles in the 2004 film Roxi and the 2005 Gray Hofmeyr movie Mama Jack, with Leon Schuster.

Catriona Andrew

Cast · Known for Egoli: Place of Gold

Catriona Andrew is a Scottish-born South African actress best known for her role as Jane Edwards in the long-running M-Net soap opera Egoli; and as lawyer Nadine Shakanovsky in the SABC3 drama series The Lab.

Hanli Rolfes

Hanli Rolfes (credited as Hanli Rolfes-Opperman from 2002-2010) is a South African actress best known for her role as Sarah-Lee Odendaal on the SABC1 soapie Generations, from 1996-2001. She received an Honours degree in Drama (cum laude) from the University of Pretoria in 1994. Shortly thereafter she made her television debut as Lieutenant Bernice Fox in Scholtz Films's Die Laksman, after which she started her six-year stint on Generations. She has had lead roles in a number of major shows on Afrikaans pay channel kykNET, including the roles of Louise Schoeman in the soapie Villa Rosa, Sophia Landman in the drama series Kruispad, Sonja Mostert in Binnelanders and Lanie in Getroud Met Rugby, a drama series she co-created with her husband at the time, Deon Opperman. Other television series she has appeared in include Justice For All, The Adventures of Sinbad, Vetkoekpaleis, Egoli, Iemand om lief te hê (Someone to Love), Jozi Streets, 4Play: Sex Tips for Girls, Askies, Soul City, Skeem Saam, Hartland and Geraamtes in die Kas. She also has numerous theatre credits, including the Afrikaans plays Boesman my Seun (2005), Twaalfuurwals (2006), Kaburu (2007) and Knypie Oppie Kant (2008). She was one of the contestant panelists on the SABC2 game show Where Were You?, from August to November, 2008. Hanli was married to fellow actor and playwright Deon Opperman from 2002-2010, with the marriage ending in divorce.

Gretchen Egolf

Gretchen Egolf is actress and director.