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ART IMITATES LIFE

IT’S the kind of thing that would be considered too far-fetched, even for a TV series. A daughter presumed to be dead turns out to be alive many years later.

A father is thrilled to discover he has a sixth child – then, in a bizarre twist, he and one of his other daughters are both cast in TV shows involving long-lost children.

For veteran actor Mangaliso Ngema (48) and his daughter, Khosi (20) – star of Netflix’s smash-hit series Blood & Water – this was the stranger-than-fiction situation in which they found themselves.

In Blood & Water, Khosi plays Fikile Bhele, a girl believed to be a child

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