Kwanza/ Tshilimela

A celebration of African piety and lifestyle processes. Every stage of life is ritualized – be it personal or communal. To keep in step with the Divine Power, it is expected of the African to keep within the traditional lifestyle teaching of ‘Ubuntu’. The documentary looks at the values that are enshrined in the Seven

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Trace your Roots

Trace your roots is a fresh and unique programme that guarantees excitement, relevance and reverence in Mzansi today, where South African youth has a hunger to understand their identity, history and cultural roots. This show is a multi-sensory experiential guide to knowledge of self. Each episode traces the roots of an individual through a case

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Precious Africa

Precious Africa is a reality travel series connecting and showcasing youth around Africa. The show uncovers Africa one day at a time, discovering and exploring sights, sounds, people and places that cannot be found in a travel book or magazine. Precious, the presenter embarks on a journey unlike anything seen before – always surprising, refreshing

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It Happened to Me

This series of documentaries aims to tell a number of compelling human stories while at the same time informing  audiences of issues around serious illnesses that affect South Africans across the socio-economic divides. It is a knowledge building series that also speaks of the human spirit’s will to heal and survive. Titles in this series

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African Science is Sexy

This series traces the lives and journeys of our ancient ancestors through what they left behind where they lived. Investigating everything from artworks and tools to remains of food we begin to piece together how people lived. In a cave on the South Cape Coast we find surprising material evidence supporting the genetic fact that

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Going Home

Teko comes home: A highly emotional drama, an exotic, current modern story of a young man returning from the United States. A young man who should have ended up being a farm labourer, but is a graduate from the USA. The story of a Malawian Gardener/ Kenneth’s trek: Through Kenneth’s journey, we create a compelling

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Family Baggage

Father inside: Turbulent apartheid township politics left their mark on Magadien Wentzel. His mother farmed out all her children to keep her job as a live-in domestic worker. Magadien was enraged to gradually find out in childhood, who his parents were. Brutalized by members of his foster family, he turned in his teens, to gangsterism

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A Question of Madness

The story of the man who murdered the architect of apartheid. On 6 September 1966 a parliamentary messenger strode between the green leather benches of Cape Town’s House of Assembly, pulled out a knife and stabbed Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd to death. The assassin, Dimitri Tsafendas, was written off as insane and condemned to a

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