Love, Sex and 30 Candles is a 2023 Netflix Original South African movie, directed by Stephina Zwane, starring Bahumi Madisakwane, Candice Modiselle, Gabisile Tshabalala, and Amogelang Chidi.

Through a year of 30th birthdays, four best friends navigate relationships, heartbreak, and a shocking development that threatens to tear them apart.

[2] When at college, best friends Sade, Linda, Nolwazi and Dikeledi 'Kedi' made a video, sharing their hopes for themselves by 30.

Sade is engaged to extremely religious, controlling Winston, who won't have premarital sex with her and is disapproving of her friends and alcohol.

One evening, home after a date, Linda tells her mom about e-mailing with her father, who encourages her to forgive him.

At Kedi's engagement party, Sade complains about Winston not letting her prepare the wedding, choose the dress, maid of honor, etc.

At Sade's bridal shower, thrown by the matron of honor Winston chose, the pastor's wife, is a very chaste affair.

Describing her tumultuous life's influence on her collection to Ephry, Nolwazi details the specific relevant events.

Sade's husband won't consummate the marriage, even a month after the wedding, until she is purified.

Sade catches Winston having sex with the preacher's wife as she's collecting her things, happily snapping a photo for the divorce.

[3] On 15 August 2023, a local premiere was held at Nu Metro in Hyde Park, South Africa.

[4] Reviewing for Ready Steady Cut, Amanda Guarragi wrote; "What this film shows is the constant strength that women have to harness when dealing with situations that really shouldn’t be happening to them because certain men act on impulses".