Release Date

26 Jan, 2007

Runtime

01:00: (HH:MM)

Total Episode/Season

39/3

Synopsis

Jacob Makhubu, son of a liberation hero, is a promising young South African businessman. He is in the throes of bidding for a big contract to build an energy source for government when he is offered a of a lifetime with a Nigerian company, the Empire. They will provide all the financial backing his energy bid requires, on the condition that he takes up a position of CEO. He flies to Lagos to meet Chief Abayomi, head of the Abayomi Empire. Instead of getting down to business, Abayomi reveals himself as Jacob’s real father and bequeaths to him a business empire. But it is not just an empire Jacob inherits; it is also a family and a dream. This complex inheritance sets Jacob on an epic quest and immediately pits him against both his new found family with long held business traditions and powerful enemies...

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Season 1

26 Jan, 2007

Jacob Makhubu, son of a liberation hero, is a promising young South African businessman. He is in the throes of bidding for a big contract to build an energy source for government when he is offered a of a lifetime with a Nigerian company, the Empire. They will provide all the financial backing his energy bid requires, on the condition that he takes up a position of CEO. He flies to Lagos to meet Chief Abayomi, head of the Abayomi Empire. Instead of getting down to business, Abayomi reveals himself as Jacob’s real father and bequeaths to him a business empire. But it is not just an empire Jacob inherits; it is also a family and a dream. This complex inheritance sets Jacob on an epic quest and immediately pits him against both his new found family with long held business traditions and powerful enemies...

Season 2

27 Jul, 2007

Season one ended with Jacob's botched rescue of Baby Joe after Lerato called the cops, who arrived just as Bola and Jacob were about to swap baby Joe for the Abayomi Oil papers. Bola got away with the baby leaving Jacob heartbroken in the park. Jacob and Lerato were in the throes of a divorce before the kidnapping. Prospero and Jacob's friendship is in tatters because of Prospero's involvement in a consortium which included Bola seeking oil acreage in Nigeria Delta. Jacob's own moral fibre is in question – shaken by his mother's affair, his own identity and his friend's betrayal. He has fallen for old flame Zanele and left his marital home. He has made no real attempt to take the Abayomi throne or earn respect from his Nigerian family. He has distanced his mother and his business is precariously dangling on the Abayomi oil fortune which underwrites his power - station. Can Jacob turn things around and become the man Chief Abayomi believed him to be?

Season 3

04 Jun, 2008

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