e.tv's new soap, Imbewu: The Seed, gets slotted for a 9:30pm timeslot from 16 April as Leleti Khumalo goes from MaNzuza to MaZulu.

e.tv has scheduled the free-to-air commercial channel's new Imbewu: The Seed for a 21:30 timeslot, with the KwaZulu-Natal set weekday soap that will kick off on 16 April as the only local soap in the timeslot.

Imbewu: The Seed that will broadcast Mondays to Fridays on e.tv, has a cast including Thembi Mtshali (MaNdlovu), Sandile Dlamini (Phakade), Mpumelelo Bhulose (Zimele) and Leleti Khumalo going from MaNzuza in SABC1s Uzalo to MaZulu.

It will be the only show of its type during the 21:30 timeslot as e.tv decided not to schedule Imbewu during the heated and strongly contested 20:00 hour.

SABC2's Keeping Score ends on 10 April and is replaced by old rebroadcasts a week before Imbewu kicks off.

Imbewu shares a lot of similarities with SABC1's Uzalo as the show that Leleti Khumalo used to be in before jumping to Imbewu and where she now, besides an on-screen role, also gets an executive producer credit.

Imbewu: The Seed is produced by Grapevine Productions, a joint venture between Videovision Entertainment, Word of Mouth Pictures and Luys Productions with Duma Ndlovu and Anant Singh.

Imbewu: The Seed revolves around two brothers - one leading a rural life, the other one rich in the city. One can't father children and the other one is asked to impregnate his brother's wife in order to ensure the legacy and dynasty of the family name.

Controversy already stirred over the show, shot on location in KwaZulu-Natal, before a single episode has been shown.

The anti-Indian group knwon as the Injenje Yaba Nguni Council in February threatened to burn down Anant Singh’s Videovision offices if Imbewu dares to portray racial tensions between Indians and other groupings.

e.tv said that it found the "threat of violence against Videovision Entertainment disturbing, and should this materialise, it will be dealt with, within the confines of the law".