Tristan van Reenen

Tristan is the passionate, sometimes obsessive, protector of the conservancy on which the Dinaledi Lodge operates.

He wants to conserve the environment for future generations and often ends up on a crusade when a crime is committed against nature. Although his wife, Kate, understands his passion, she can’t help but feel neglected at times. Tristan loves his wife and daughter, Amber, more than his work but sometimes he lets the work take over.

Tristan has a tenuous relationship with his father, Karel, they often have opposing ideas about what’s best for the family and for the land.

Karel van Reenen

When Karel stands on his porch and looks out all that he sees once belonged to him but is now lost to the Tladis, the Lebones and the wild.

Karel refuses to flee and even though he’s seen as the last of his kind in this region, Karel is an important figure in this community. He became instrumental in brokering a tenuous peace between the feuding Tladis and Lebones and as a result gained a stake in the lodge. Karel’s fight to keep a grip on his little piece of land is spurred on by the need to keep his family together. But inevitably that need leads him to push his children, Tristan and Sarah, away from him.

What he’s has failed to do as a father he makes up for as a grandfather – he and Amber are inseparable.

Lelo Sedibe

Lelo is young, sassy and sexy; living the high life in the City of Gold and loving every moment of the fast paced life.

The überfashionista is the fashion editor of the most successful magazine in the country, Chic Magazine. She has found success and is now looking for love and to be protected by a strong man. She doesn’t realise that she doesn’t need a man to make her happy; the power within her will be unleashed and she’ll become the one to take care of herself and others.

Lelo is in a relationship with Modise but is searching for a deeper connection.

Marang Lebone

Marang is an extremely intelligent and influential presence who, on the surface, comes across as being selfless and kind.

Tragic circumstance propelled her prematurely into the role of mother and protector of her two younger brothers, Tiro and Khumo. The familial fabric of these bonds dominates her life to such a degree that her own relationship with her husband and children has started disintegrating.

Having “martyred” herself to protect and nurture her brothers, like the lioness, her defence of them is instinctive and uncompromising. For their safety and well-being she would fight off any enemy with her full might.

Modise Tladi

Modise has it all worked out, he has made a great life for himself in the city. He’s a man at the top of his game.

A gorgeous girlfriend, great friends, generous income, he has the quintessential good life. He and his group of university friends have founded a successful Advertising Agency: Umeme. He is without doubt one of the more eligible bachelors in Johannesburg, his easy smile, his calm self confidence, all combine to make a very attractive package.

Itumeleng Tladi

When Itumeleng Tladi enters the dining room at Dinaledi Lodge, heads turn: all the men want to be him; all the women want to sleep with him.

He is a powerful presence, well built, strong featured and sporting a smile that supports the shining humour and intelligence in his eyes. He knows he is charming, he knows he is powerful, and he knows he is on the verge of becoming the chief of his people. He has no qualms about taking over the chieftaincy from his father, Rratladi; he carries the confidence of his birthright and knows he has been groomed for the job since the day he was born.