Een Keer om die Son returns to kykNET for Season 2, pulling viewers into another emotional year in the lives of one of Afrikaans TV’s most compelling families. When the series first premiered, it took us through 12 unforgettable months of love, ambition, distance and devastating loss, proving that behind every “perfect” family lies a storm waiting to break.
Now, as the new season kicks off on New Year’s Eve, the Van Wyks are no longer gathered under one roof. Life has happened. Fault lines have deepened. And the consequences of last season’s tragedy are only just beginning to surface. Season 2 picks up in the aftermath, promising raw emotion, unanswered questions and a family forced to confront what the past has left behind. If you thought you’d seen the full impact of one trip around the sun, think again.
The Van Wyks of Een keer om die son returned to kykNET on Tuesday 20 January for another orbit around the sun. Here are five reasons to get excited.
The new season brings back the beloved cast serving more deeper emotion and intrigue
Een keer om die son was a massive hit in 2024, and the second season promises even more emotion and intrigue, a dash of comedy and a drama unique to our country and its people. All the lead actors are back in their roles. Jacques Bessenger is Dr Ruan van Wyk, and the children are played by Liam Bosman (Markus), Alma van Heerden (Leandri) and Klara van Zyl (Sophia). Jana Kruger (Lani), whose death is still haunting Ruan and the children, can be seen again in flashbacks. Amé (Donnalee Roberts) is Ruan’s younger sister whose marriage ended in divorce in the first series. Albert Maritz appears as Sebastian, the retired professor of entomology, and Joanie Combrink is Elma, the Van Wyk matriarch who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in the first season.
The show dives deeper into raw, real-life struggles the characters go through
In the second season, each of the characters faces their own challenges, not only on the first day of the year when the series kicks off, but throughout the rest of the thirteen-episode run. Among the challenges are finding acceptance, seizing second chances, addiction, life-changing medical problems and each person’s search for their place within the family circle.
Cindy Swanepoel joins the cast as Erika du Randt
A new character in Season 2 is Erika du Randt, a social worker whose career is her first and only love. The role is played by Cindy Swanepoel. As early as the first episode of the new series, her path crosses with Ruan’s. Is there love in the air?
The series is created by a winning team
The winning team behind Een keer om die son is Ivan Botha, Donnalee Roberts and the producer Danie Bester, who together were also responsible for hits such as Pad na jou hart, Vir altyd and Blindelings. The series was written by Ivan, Donnalee, Liani Jansen van Rensburg, Maritsa van Eeden and Almero Welgemoed.
The supporting cast is formidable
Returning characters are Sebastian and Elma’s good friends Salie and Jan Wessels (Susanne Beyers and Pierre van Pletzen), Markus’s dance partner and girlfriend, Charlie (Simone Neethling), Leandri’s boyfriend, Xavier (Alex van Dyk), Lani’s father, Trevor de Kock (Deon Lotz), the nurse Karen (Isadora Verwey) and Sophia’s friend little Dougie (Johannes Jordaan). Charl Boshoff (Ivan Botha), Amé’s colleague, plays a more central role in the second season. The young actor Heinrich Wentzel, known for his roles in Niggies and Die nuusmakers, stars as Elijah Smith, whose path crosses with Leandri’s in an unusual way. In the first episode of the second series, Mandri Sutherland appears as Niggie, a woman in search of love.
The second season of Een keer om die son premiered on Tuesday 20 January on kykNET (DStv channel 144). It will also be available on DStv Stream and Catch Up. You can binge-watch the first season on Showmax.
