Netflix's 'The Polygamist' tops streaming charts in South Africa and Kenya

The Zulu-language series released on 12 June has drawn record viewership and prompted discussion on polygamy and marriage.

• The show attracted two million views and ranked fourth on Netflix's global top 10 for non-English series in its first week.
• Producer Gugu Zuma-Ncube stated that scenes in the show were taken from her life in a polygamist family.
• Kenyan civil servant Geoffrey Mosiria called for the show's ban in Kenya, saying it gives polygamy a bad name.
• Author Sue Nyathi warned against pirated copies of her novel, on which the series is based, being sold in Nairobi.