Characters

• Born: 30 Sep 1977
• Status: Married to Lucas Madikane
• Occupation: Voluntary worker (AIDS orphanage)

Kate has spirit, spark and courage, but these qualities can spell as much trouble as they can success. Never one to shy away from a challenge, she has always flouted convention, diving into protest rallies, exotic foreign adventures and stormy relationships with equal fervour. From her teenage years when she was expelled from school right up to the present day she has never run with the crowd.

She basically abandoned her eldest daughter into the care of her then very young father Roy Tucker. Her subsequent occasional visits to Ambridge have always disrupted what would otherwise be a very happy life for Phoebe.

When she returned for a year to study International Development at Felpersham University (2010-2011), the disruption grew to family-rocking proportions.