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After Robot Love
Jan 01, 1970
Umnisamvula
Jan 01, 1970
Father's Day
Jan 01, 1970Father’s Day is a short film about Alakhe a 12-year-old boy who is raised by a single mother. Being the class nerd, Alakhe is selected to give a speech for a Father’s Day school event. He decides to go against his mother’s word and sets out to find the father he’s never met which opens a can of worms. Eventually, he discovers who his real father is.
Drama
Mbokodo
Jan 01, 1970“Wathinta abafazi, Wathin’imbokodo” (you strike a woman, you strike a rock) is a phrase commonly used to describe the strength of a woman. It is used to describe the epitome of strength found in women. Sizani, an eight-year-old girl, uses ukuqoqisa – a storytelling form where rocks are used as characters in a story – to tell the story of how she was sexually violated.
Drama
Mamlambo
Jun 01, 1997Mamlambo is the goddess of rivers in Zulu mythology. In this tragic love story, a homeless boy in Johannesburg falls in love with a Chinese prostitute and must face up to her tyrannical father.
Drama
Umunti Akalahlwa
Nov 25, 1979The Advocate
Mar 12, 1979Maxhosa
Jan 01, 1975The story of Macbeth is transposed into an African tribal setting. Macbeth is a Zulu warrior, and the Scottish castles become the kraals in the mountainous landscape.
Botsotso III
Mar 28, 1982Call The Girls
Feb 01, 1980
Fanakalo
Jan 01, 1970
Les Sangomas
Jan 01, 1985Rite of initiation of a Sangoma: medium, healer or sorcerer, which takes place in a neighborhood of Soweto.
Documentary
66 Pim Street
Jan 01, 1983The Action Centre is Johannesburg’s only black theatre. The accent here is put on the collective work of the members of the Centre to create and to keep this very different kind of cultural centre going.
Documentary
The Stepmother
Mar 16, 1980Langa, a young man trying to make the most of his lot in life, learns that his father is about to marry his pregnant girlfriend. But after the new Stepmother moves in, things soon start to turn for the worse for the young man when the conniving woman, unbeknownst to both Father and Son, starts using muti, a form of traditional medicine, to take control of the household. With the Father completely under her spell, she convinces him to kick young Langa out of the house and onto the streets, all in an evil plan to bring her own son, Sipho, into the fold. With her diabolical plan in motion, she and Sipho manage to kill the Father, but their crime is not a prefect one as a policeman witnesses Sipho fleeing the scene and both Stepmother and son are ultimately brought to justice.
Drama
The Priest and The Thief
Mar 14, 1980A priest in a small village is put to the test when a local homeless boy steals money from the church. Believing the Lord allowed him to take whatever he wanted as the church is, after all, the house of the Lord, the young thief steals away, enjoying his strange sense of entitlement. The Priest, however, sees the thief for exactly what he is – a thief. And so he chases him away, telling him not to come back. The young thief, upset by this, begins a series of pranks against the Priest, confusing the holy man along the way. Eventually figuring out what is really going on, the Priest turns the tables on the young prankster and finally manages to get rid of the boy once and for all.
Comedy
The Boxer
Dec 01, 1980Phumlani, a young and ambitious boxer trained by Ta Max, has a big fight coming up when fate deals him a bad turn and he is tragically left paralyzed in a wheelchair after a random freak accident. The young man soon spirals into a state of depression, having lost all his will to live as a cripple.
Action
Mobster
Jul 11, 1985A old man is desperate to help is very sick son (Peter), and is tricked by the local "mobster" to take Peter to a sangoma/nyanga, who is in a syndicate with the mobster. Moses does not believe that the hospital and medication are helping. Whilst his oldest son (Paul) and fiance (Ruth) are at church he takes Peter to the sangoma. However Moses is killed by the sangoma, and Peter's condition worsens without his medication. Paul along with Ruth are over come with worry and they set out to rescue his brother and father, they are helped by Robert whose wife was also kidnapped by the sangoma. Even though they too late to save Moses, they manage to rescue Roberts wife and Peter.
Drama
Mine Boy
Apr 12, 1980After his father passes away, Xuma heads for the city in search of work to be able to support his family back home. Here, he is introduced to Stella, a middle-aged woman who runs an illegal shabeen and who offers him a place to stay after he finds employment at a nearby mining plant. Xuma is introduced to Stella's niece, Pinkie, and the pair hit it off almost immediately. But when Pienkie falls pregnant and tragically dies during the complicated procedure of having an abortion, Xuma is shattered. Blaming himself for her death, he decides to leave the city and return home to his family instead.
Drama
Knockout Joe
Aug 07, 1980When Max, the owner of a brick manufacturing company, is given 50 carats worth of diamonds to smuggle out of the country for a fee of R5 million, he is completely unaware he is being set up.With an undercover cop closely keeping surveillance, Max sets out with two comrades and while on route to their destination, the diamonds mysteriously go missing. In the end, Max and his accomplices are arrested by the undercover cop, and it’s revealed that they are the ones that tried to double cross Max by secretly stealing the diamonds for themselves.
Drama
Die Sentrum
Apr 08, 2021Die Sentrum (The Centre) is a South African telenovela which revolves around a group of eight diverse counsellors who work together at a helpline call centre.
Comédie
SA's Got Talent
Oct 01, 2009SA's Got Talent (also known as South Africa's Got Talent or shorten to SAGT) is a South African television show that's part of the Got Talent series. Singers, dancers, comedians, variety acts, and other performers compete against each other for audience support. The winner of each season received R500,000 (R250,000 in Seasons 1 to 5).
Reality
Youngins
Feb 12, 2024A hard-hitting teen telenovela set at a boarding school in Johannesburg. When a teen flees from a family tragedy in rural KwaZulu Natal to a boarding school in Jozi, she finds herself entangled in a scandal of epic proportions.
Minki
Jan 16, 2019A talk show with the beloved Minki van der Westhuizen. She invites a variety of people who inspire her and sometimes surprises them with more guests.
Talk
Charlie Jade
Apr 16, 2005Charlie Jade is a science fiction television program filmed mainly in Cape Town, South Africa. It stars Jeffrey Pierce in the title role, as a detective from a parallel universe who finds himself trapped in our universe. This is a Canadian and South African co-production filmed in conjunction with CHUM Television and the South African Industrial Development Corporation. The special effects were produced by the Montreal-based company Cinegroupe led by Michel Lemire.
The show started in 2004 and was aired on the Canadian Space Channel. It premiered on the Space Channel April 16, 2005 and aired in Eastern Europe, France, Italy, on SABC 3 in South Africa, on Fox Japan, and on AXN in Hong Kong. The show began airing in the United Kingdom in October 2007, on FX. The Sci Fi Channel in the United States premiered the show on June 6, 2008, but after 2 episodes on Friday prime-time, moved it to overnight Mon/Tue.
Science-Fiction & Fantastique
The Coconuts
Jan 09, 2008A South African television sitcom which tells the story of a white family who transform into a black family after violating the burial grounds of an ancient tribe.
Comédie
Come Dine With Me: South Africa
Oct 12, 2011Come Dine With Me South Africa is a South African cooking reality competition television series based on the British series Come Dine With Me and produced by Rapid Blue which follows four people who have never previously met as they snoop around each other's homes, sample each other's cooking and pass judgment on each other's entertaining skills.
Reality
Troukoors
Dec 13, 2021A South African, Afrikaans-language comedy series which evolves after a freak accident sets a wedding planner on an unexpected path. Together with her friends she navigates life and love while wondering if the perfect person, and day, really exists.
Comédie
Orkney Snork Nie
May 10, 1989Orkney Snork Nie, a popular Afrikaans sitcom, originally broadcast by the SABC in South Africa. The name translates directly into Orkney Doesn't Snore, but the message being conveyed in Afrikaans is that the town isn't sleepy, there's always something happening.
Comédie
Hester & Ester Bester
Apr 14, 2007A South African, Afrikaans-language television sitcom which tells the story of two sisters from Bloemfontein who move in with their aunt Bessie and - together with their friend Trompie - cause chaos for no good reason.
Comédie
MasterChef South Africa
Mar 20, 2012Aspiring chefs go up against one another in a culinary competition that requires them to impress the judges by preparing various types of dishes and become the ultimate winner.
Reality
The Girl from St. Agnes
Jan 31, 2019Dark secrets are revealed after a tragic event at an elite boarding school sets off a search for the truth.
Drame
Stokvel
Jul 02, 2003Stokvel is a South African television sitcom set in the vibrant and exciting world of stokvels, where friends meet for companionship, good times and a social way of saving money.
Comédie
Hard Copy
Feb 03, 2005A struggling tabloid finds new direction when a crime reporter takes the helm and pivots writers back to bold investigative journalism.
Drame
Reyka
Jul 25, 2021In 1994 South Africa, the daughter of a multiracial couple is kidnapped. She escapes and as an adult becomes a detective. Continuing to deal with her past trauma, Reyka Gama uses her skills to raise her child and solve mysteries that have challenged others.
Drame
Die Kontrak
Sep 19, 2018A reality singing competition where aspiring music stars try to convince the big boss every week that they can win the one million rand record contract.
Reality
Stralend
Apr 01, 2024Popular TV personality Angelique Gerber and her team are looking for 12 women to embark on this life-changing journey with them. All the participants get the opportunity to become a new and better version of themselves and even radically change their appearance.
Reality
Scandal! (ZA)
Jan 01, 1970Scandal! is a South African television soap opera produced by Ochre Media about the people who work for the fictitious Johannesburg-based newspaper The Voice, with their pressurized deadlines, the chaos of breaking news, the fight for increased circulation and ad spend to their (no longer) private lives and personal angst.
Soap
Home Affairs
Jul 14, 2005Home Affairs is a South African television drama series created and produced by Roberta Durrant. It tells the story of nine very different women whose lives are interconnected. The women's stories reflect the wide cultural range of South African women. The women each undertake a journey of self-discovery, connecting with each other in various and random ways.
Drame
Wyfie
Feb 09, 2024An edgy, youthful and urban Afrikaans drama that follows four females as they navigate the complicated world of university life and how they walk the thin line between mischief and wrongdoing to survive.
Drame
