{"id":21082,"date":"2024-02-01T19:09:53","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T17:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/?p=21082"},"modified":"2024-02-01T19:09:56","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T17:09:56","slug":"watch-netflix-drops-official-trailer-for-rom-com-movie-a-soweto-love-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2024\/02\/01\/watch-netflix-drops-official-trailer-for-rom-com-movie-a-soweto-love-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Netflix Drops Official Trailer For Rom-Com Movie, A Soweto Love Story"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Roses are red, violets are blue, no plans for Valentine\u2019s? No worries, Netflix has got you! Today, Netflix dropped the official trailer for its latest local rom-com offering, <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/title\/2477\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/title\/2477\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">A Soweto Love Story<\/a><\/em><\/strong> launching on the service on 14 February 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tired of being the only woman in the family, mother to unlucky-in-love sons, Bongekile (Duduzile Ngcobo) challenges her cubs to find their perfect partners before the New Year.\u00a0 Their incentive? &#8211; the first son to find a <em>makoti <\/em>(bride), will be crowned the sole heir to the coveted Ngubeni home. This challenge of romantic ambitions , desires and appeasing the family matriarch sees the brothers, played by Lunga Shabalala, Sparky Xulu, and Ray Neo Buso embark on a competitive quest to find the perfect partner while navigating very tricky, murky, but always hilarious dating waters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>A Soweto Love Story <\/em>is an adaptation of Netflix Nigerian film A Naija Christmas written by Kemi Adesoye and directed by Kunle Afolayan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rounding out the formidable cast is South Africa\u2019s favourite comedian, Skhumba Hlope with guaranteed laugh-a-minute humour, and outstanding performances by love interests, Sihle Ndaba, Didintle Khunou, Motsoaledi Setumo that will have you swooning at your screen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A Soweto Love Story | Official Trailer | Netflix\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/is0kRxT7WqM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One thing about two things, love is for everyone, and Valentine\u2019s Day is not to be missed, this 14 February 2024, only on Netflix.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roses are red, violets are blue, no plans for Valentine\u2019s? No worries, Netflix has got you! Today, Netflix dropped the official trailer for its latest local rom-com offering, A Soweto Love Story launching on the service on 14 February 2024.\u00a0 Tired of being the only woman in the family, mother to unlucky-in-love sons, Bongekile (Duduzile&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2024\/02\/01\/watch-netflix-drops-official-trailer-for-rom-com-movie-a-soweto-love-story\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Watch: Netflix Drops Official Trailer For Rom-Com Movie, A Soweto Love Story<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21083,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[208],"class_list":["post-21082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-online","tag-netflix","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/ASowetoLoveStory-banner.jpg?fit=450%2C253&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}