Huisgenoot: Ware Lewensdramas — Season 16
About this season
The series is based on stories that appeared in Huisgenoot magazine. It focuses on the characters, experts and journalists behind the stories.
Episodes (13)
1. Elsiesrivier-moorde
10.0Aired 7 July 2025
Shots in the night. Silence afterwards. Four people, including three children, are shot dead in a wendy house in Elsiesrivier in September 2019 - Their mothers who survived that night tell us what really happened.
2. Taytim-Lee Hendricks
10.0Aired 14 July 2025
18-year-old Taytim-Lee Hendricks was on her way to her parents' home in Bonteheuwel in 2022, when a car suddenly hit her and she was thrown onto the roof of a house as a result of the impact.
3. Ray McCauley
6.0Aired 21 July 2025
The life story of the infamous pastor Ray McCauley. He was a familiar face in the South African landscape and died on October 8, 2024.
4. Kirsty Theologo & Bronwyn Grammar
10.0Aired 28 July 2025
One night in 2013, Kirsty Theologo and her friend Bronwyn Grammar arrived home with severe burns. The events that unfolded later were unbelievable.
5. Pastoor Albern Martins - Deel 1
8.0Aired 4 August 2025
This week we look at the story of Pastor Albern Martins, better known as the "Gangster Pastor" who was shot in front of the Blue Downs Magistrate's Court.
6. Pastoor Albern Martins - Deel 2
9.0Aired 11 August 2025
This week we look at part 2 of the story of Pastor Albern Martins, better known as the "Gangster Pastor" who was shot in front of the Blue Downs Magistrate's Court.
7. Shantel Zeelie
9.0Aired 18 August 2025
On January 6, 2009, Shantel Zeelie's body was found under tree branches along the footpath at the Knysna Heads. The autopsy showed that strangulation was the cause of her murder. Her killer was not sentenced until March 2018.
8. Sheldean Human
10.0Aired 25 August 2025
The story of Sheldean Human shook the whole of South Africa in 2007. In the episode we relive the tragedy.
9. Mariska & Jacques du Plessis
10.0Aired 1 September 2025
On June 23, 2017, Mariska du Plessis called the police and said there was an argument between her and her husband, Jacques. Later, she called again and said robbers had shot him. It later emerged that she herself had shot her husband with a shotgun.
10. Magdaleen & Ruzanne Weideman
10.0Aired 8 September 2025
Paul Prinsloo is accused of shooting his wife Magdaleen and stepdaughter Ruzanne Weideman to death with a hunting rifle at their home in Kosmos on November 27, 2023.
11. An-nei Stumke
8.0Aired 15 September 2025
An-nei Stumke, a payroll clerk at an agricultural company in Patensie, embezzled millions of rands without her employer's knowledge between June 2016 and January 2019.
12. Die Rondebult-Moorde
10.0Aired 22 September 2025
In the Rondebult murders in January 2024, the bodies of three people were found in the back of an abandoned bakkie in a field near Germiston. The victims were the parents and sister of the accused, Eugene Botha.
13. Zack du Plessis
Aired 29 September 2025
This week's episode celebrates the life of beloved actor, Zack du Plessis.