Coming up on Smoke & Mirrors this July 2024:
Monday 1 July 2024
Episode 56
As rumours of a serial killer spread, Jaxon learns that Phakathi intends to exhume Sindi's body. He calls an emergency meeting. Martha brings Kayise home. She announces she is quitting school.
Tuesday 2 July 2024
Episode 57
Jaxon stuns the town and infuriates both Caesar and Phakathi when he announces Mthetho could be the serial killer responsible for murdering Sindi.
Wednesday 3 July 2024
Episode 58
In the underbelly of deception, Caesar and Jaxon are enmeshed in a clandestine operation, planting incriminating evidence, setting the stage for a sinister frame-up within Mthetho's quarters.
Thursday 4 July 2024
Episode 59
Caesar struggles but in the end plants evidence in Mthetho's apartment, pointing to his departed friend being the serial killer. Meanwhile, Phakathi meets resistance from Sindi's family to exhume her body.
Friday 5 July 2024
Episode 60
Caesar hands over an incriminating file to Mlamuli, setting up Mthetho. Martha admits to Jaxon that she wishes she could've been there to see Kayise grow up.
Monday 8 July 2024
Episode 61
Petunia is shocked when Mandla makes her Manager despite the Jerry debacle. Kayise gets Fanyana and Mpendulo into trouble with Ndosh.
Tuesday 9 July 2024
Episode 62
Thandiswa panics about the discovery of Nthabiseng's body. Caesar reassures her, revealing that, to protect her, he planted evidence to point to Mthetho as the perpetrator.
Wednesday 10 July 2024
Episode 63
Thandiswa finds Leroy completely gutted about Mthetho and the fact that he was engaged to a serial killer. Sakhile mourns the death of Nthabiseng.
Thursday 11 July 2024
Episode 64
Sakhile arranges a vigil for Nthabiseng. He and Phakathi bond. The community starts to boycott the salon because of Leroy's association with "Emnyameni's serial killer", Mthetho.
Friday 12 July 2024
Episode 65
Sakhile and the community gather for Nthabiseng's vigil, then lay her to rest. Sakhile confronts the fact that she's never coming back.
Monday 15 July 2024
Episode 66
Phakathi challenges Caesar and Jaxon, doubting Mthetho's label as a serial killer and suspecting a darker manipulation of their investigation.
Tuesday 16 July 2024
Episode 67
Leroy gives in and apologises to the Emnyameni community for Mthetho's actions and distances himself from Mthetho, ensuring the salon reopens.
Wednesday 17 July 2024
Episode 68
Phakathi is still feeling hard done by Sindi's investigation and gets into a tiff with Mamiki. Meanwhile, Petunia sinks further and further into her lie when Sakhile helps her out with a selfie.
Thursday 18 July 2024
Episode 69
Caesar learns that one of his trucks has been hijacked. Thandiswa fears for his safety, and suggests he reports it to the police, but Caesar wants to deal with it internally.
Friday 19 July 2024
Episode 70
Will Thandiswa remember her promise to her sister and finally exact revenge on Caesar and Jaxon, or will she be drawn deeper and deeper into Caesar's dark world, in the name of love?
Monday 22 July 2024
Episode 71
Caesar won't confide in Thandiswa that he's arming his drivers with guns. Caesar receives a troubling call from the hijacker. Martha and Jaxon go to Paris.
Tuesday 23 July 2024
Episode 72
Caesar's drivers are attacked again. Phakathi tries to get involved but Caesar shuts him out. Phakathi continues to try to put out the fire Mamiki has lit with her Dlozi outburst.
Wednesday 24 July 2024
Episode 73
Caesar devises an elaborate trap, seducing the hijackers into a false sense of security. In a sudden turn, he strikes with lightning speed, revealing Sgwaca as the sinister architect behind the curtain.
Thursday 25 July 2024
Episode 74
Caesar asks for a coal truck to be loaded for delivery in evening even though there are no drivers to do the work and his workers speculate that he's going to do the driving.
Friday 26 July 2024
Episode 75
Thulani is attacked by municipal workers over unpaid salaries. Thandiswa is frustrated with Caesar shutting her out of the other side of his life.
Monday 29 July 2024
Episode 76
Jaxon and Martha return to find the municipal workers trashing the hotel. Martha's holds them in check while Jaxon flees.
Tuesday 30 July 2024
Episode 77
Martha warns Jaxon to fix the worker's strike, she's sick of them causing trouble at the hotel. Caesar gives Thandiswa the combination to his safe, showing how much, he trusts her.
Wednesday 31 July 2024
Episode 78
Thandiswa is interrogated by mysterious gangsters, unaware that Caesar is watching. Jaxon dishes out the town's last funds to the strikers, panics when he learns of an impending audit.