Get this: Shona Ferguson is nominated and could possibly win in the category for best actor in a soap opera for the 6th South African Film and Television awards (Saftas) - but not for his current role in M-Net's The Wild ... for his role of Alex Phiri in e.tv's Scandal! a role he left at the end of 2010 already.
I asked and so far M-Net has no comment on an actor in their soap being nominated for a soap he hasn't been seen in on screen for more than a year.
I also asked the National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF) who organises the Saftas why Shona Ferguson got nominated for Alex in Scandal!. The NFVF explains:
''The Saftas rules specify that ' only South African television productions/programmes that have been produced and publicly broadcast between 1 April 2010 until 31 July 2011 are eligible'. Therefore Shona Ferguson qualifies to be nominated for Scandal! as at the time of submission it qualified, even though he has left the soapie.''
