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The choir and church soar: They have TV shows; concerts; a huge following; fame, fortune, and record contracts. As with all success stories, this one involves compromise – a compromise between commercial and personal integrity. Gabriella is turned into a sanitised media myth – and a major star. Fully aware that Gospel has given her

The sitcom is set in the late 1980’s and early 1980’s in the North West mining town of Orkney. The miner Hendrik, his wife Maggie, eldest son Ouboet (mechanic) and his wife Yolanda (hairdresser), daughter Hess (scholar and later student) and teenage son Wimpie are the main characters in a typical Afrikaans mining family. The

This epic tale begins in the dusty streets of a racially integrated Fordsburg in the early sixties, where three little boys pledge their friendship in blood. It ends in the nineties on the eve of the first democratic South African election. In those three decades the boys have grown up along paths that differ widely.

What happens when the local butcher of a small town, unable to accept the tragic and untimely death of his wife, decides to dig up her corpse and with the help of his two young sons, install it in a secretly prepared tomb on his farm? On a moonless night in 1995, an event took

Interrogation room is a 13-part drama series built around the intense psychological drama that takes place in the interrogation room of a Cape Town police station. Interrogation room is about people. It explores the emotional impact that crime has on its victims and on the police themselves. The interrogation room is where lies are told,

A drama series that has 26 separate but interlinked episodes, Intersexions examines issues relating to love, sex and relationships – and how they can have heartbreaking and physically devastating, consequences. Intersexions is an episodic educational drama series that shows how our lives intersect and criss-cross with others’ in ways we don’t even know about. As

Izingane Zobaba is an adaptation of Shakespeare’s King Lear. The original text’s concept of ‘kingdom’ has been transposed into a modern day setting of ‘corporate empire’. Izingane Zobaba is about the effects of power upon a family and how the actions around the acquisition of this power could result in both the destruction of the

Justice for all is a powerful and popular human rights legal drama series. It is drama on the cutting edge of social change; drama exploring urgent and topical issues. It strives to demystify legal and court procedures in order to build ordinary South Africans’ confidence in the legal system and to raise awareness for basic

Khumbul’ekhaya is a touching docu-reality series tracking the journeys of real South African families who reunite or reconcile with lost or estranged family members. An emotional homecoming for all South Africans, Khumbul’ekhaya shows how through reconciliation and forgiveness we can heal broken or damaged relationships in our families, and in the process, heal our nation

A young couple, Themba and Buyi Vilakazi have just moved from Umlazi to the suburbs. Hardly three months at their new place family start asking them favours. They want to come over for a few days or for a few weeks, to sort themselves out (looking for work, come for fresh air, etc). Buyi’s grandmother