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MOMMY CLUB HOOFSTAD: WATCHABLE — BUT STEEPED IN STEREOTYPES

- Hein Kaiser

Here's more make-up in the show than substance, but for some cruelly intolerable reason The Mommy Club: Hoofstad is somewhat watchable. Even if it is just to question everything you know about what you didn't know until then.

Cryptic? Well so is the rationale for making a show like this.

It's The Housewives Of, with offspring. If television came with a recycling label, an anti-woke warning for stereotyping and an almost evangelical confirmation of the Boerewors curtain between Joburg and Pretoria, this is it.

Like its Durban mommy Sugar & Spice predecessor, it is assembled from contrived situations that should have moral guardians caution about the brain-litter it leaves in its wake.

Because goodness me, do people really live in such manicured bubbles where, perhaps, the price of bread is as much as a mystery as the embarrassing typecasting.

Ansu Viljoen, 30, is a qualified hydrogeologist and an influencer, a mother of two toddlers under four, and of course, a wife.