Nothing is for Mahala

It is a funny comedy with a strong moral message, a wonderful South African film in which you can easy identify yourself.

The story is about Axe Gumede (Thapelo Mokoena) an up-and-coming property agent, who desperately wants to make his mark in life and believes that one has to spend money to make it.

The only problem is that he’s spending a lot more than he’s making and is trying to keep up to the Joneses.

His extravagant lifestyle gets him into trouble with loan sharks and, through a series of mishaps, with the law.

But his career is rudely interrupted when he gets sentenced to 200 hours of community service at a nursing home, where he meets and gets assigned to Hendrik (Marius Weyers), a grumpy old man who spent his life chasing money and who now finds himself miserable and alone.

Their story is a comic clash of cultures spiced up with hard-hitting life lessons.

I laughed out load – a lot – during this film and at the end I shed a tear.