When her restaurateur husband, Marco Giannopoulos, is found dead under a side of lamb and dripping in gourmet olive oil, Bedfordview housewife and Mrs South Africa entrant, Despina, vows to keep the family businesses going – but then learns the real family business is crime… Set in the lavish but seedy Johannesburg East suburb, Bedfordview,
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Bay Of Plenty
This drama series explores the daily lives of the inhabitants of this particular beach – the virile young black lifeguards, surfers, the waves beach at sunrise, babes, fishermen, holidaymakers, Zionists skateboarders, who hold baptisms rickshaw in men and pensioners. The main protagonists of the series are a group of friends. of sexy Bay and of plenty heroic
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The series is based in Jozi – where people from all over the country (and continent) come. Some succeed and others don’t. This is the story about these people. They often find out the streets aren’t paved with gold and the reality of harsh city life, quickly becomes apparent. However, far from focusing on the
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Dineo Nkgatho is making waves in her new role as Minister of Human Settlement. Not all the staff take kindly to her tough anti-corruption stance. She needs to keep her investigation into tender mismanagement a secret. Jabu, Dineo’s assistant is bowled over by the charms of a mysterious, pistol-packing beauty. This disturbs Dineo, especially when
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7de Laan is the brainchild of Danie Odendaal, who came upon the idea for this popular soapie nearly twenty years ago, when he was living in Melville. Every morning over coffee and breakfast in his favourite coffee shop, he watched people come and go and started creating his own imaginary suburb with a variety of
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A local drama series, located in a typical township setting, focusing on the daily lives of two families, the Sibiyas and the Molois. Here soccer bosses, small-time traders, aspiring players, gangsters, and the jobless live side by side. In Zone 14 series 3, appearances contradict reality. It appears that the old enemies, Tiger and Sizwe
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A Jozi Christmas Special
Charles Dickens’s well loved tale “A Christmas Carol” comes to life in an African context! “A Jozi Christmas Carol”, set in the present day in the heart of Jozi (the local slang for Johannesburg), tells the story of miraculous changes brought about in the life of miserly old Scrooge. Ebenezer Scrooge is a slum lord
Continue reading »All I Want for Christmas
All I Want for Christmas features three children, aged 8-10, who live in different parts of South Africa, celebrating Christmas. Their homes, families and lifestyles reflect the country’s diverse range of culture, community, geography and social heritage.
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