Co-produced by the husband and wife team of Connie and Shona Ferguson (Ferguson Films), who also co-star in the production, the Mzansi Magic network’s newest drama series, Rockville, is set to air on June 19.

Rockville, a ten-episode series that airs on Wednesday, June 19 @ 7PM, “lifts the lid on the dark side of Mzansi – the drama, sacrifices and
subterfuge that it takes to get to the top in modern-day South Africa.”

What can viewers expect from this series?

The web of intrigue is spun over three very different
worlds which define black South Africa today and which are populated by
recognisable characters, brought to life by a superb ensemble cast. The stellar
lineup includes the likes of Trevor Gumbi, Mbali Mlotshwa, Bonnie Mbuli,
Luthuli Dlamini, Minnie Dlamini and Boity Thulo.

Firstly, there’s the middle-class world of Johannesburg’s
suburbs, where fancy cars, swimming pools and private schools are uppermost in
everyone’s desperately-aspirational mind. Then there’s the working-class world
of Soweto, with its sense of community and shared struggle. Finally, bringing
these two worlds together on a dramatic and potentially tragic collision
course, is Club Venus, a bar where the city’s young, black and successful
inhabitants come out to play.

At the centre of the Rockville plot is a beautiful finance
student, Lindi Mabaso (Mbali Mlotshwa) who grew up in four-roomed matchbox
house in Soweto, with a spaza shop and hair salon at the front and a bakery
running out of the kitchen. The family is led by the formidable Mavis Mabaso
(Connie Ferguson) who has managed to give her family a decent life but is now
facing the kind of crushing financial difficulties that test her deep-seated
commitment to what’s right and good for her family.

On the other end of the moral spectrum is JB Bogatsu
(Shona Ferguson), whose life in Waterfall Estate is the very picture of
success. But not all is at it seems and JB’s claims that his riches arise out
of the success of Club Venus, a high-class cigar lounge in Rosebank, are soon
exposed for the lie that they are. Soon, the murky world of high-class escorts
comes into play, threatening to crack open the edifice that JB has so carefully
built in Johannesburg’s northern suburbs.

As she learns that every dream has a dark side,
Lindi must confront characters, situations and decisions that she never dreamed
of making.

Rockville will see Bobby Heaney serve as Executive Producer, and is directed by Johnny Barbuzano.