Channel highlights coming up on SABC1 during the month of May include a repeat screening of the 18th Annual South African Music Awards, the third season of Tshisa, the apartheid documentary Have You Heard From Johannesburg? and new magazine reality show Zoned.
All You Need is Love: season five
Starts Tuesday, 15 May at 18:30 (continues on Tuesdays)
All You Need is Love is an hour-long reality television show about the strongest human emotion of all: love. Join host Sisanda Henna and field presenter Yolanda Hlakula as they explore the depths of this universal feeling in all its manifestations. Accompany them as they celebrate exceptional husbands, wives, mothers, fathers and single people looking for someone special. In the fifth season, they see how love triumphs over adversity while they explore the nature of unconditional love and what romantic love means in an online environment.
In each programme, All You Need is Love pays homage to the feeling that fuels our existence as human beings. Guests are helped by Henna and Hlakula to demonstrate their love and adoration for a loved one. Using humour and real emotion, All You Need Is Love allows viewers to take part in a ‘slice of life’, emotionally charged dramas.
Have You Heard From Johannesburg?
Starts Tuesday, 15 May at 21:00 (continues on Tuesdays)
A story that shines light on the global citizens’ movement that took on South Africa’s apartheid regime; Have You Heard From Johannesburg? reveals how everyday people in South Africa and their allies around the globe helped challenge – and end – one of the greatest injustices the world has ever known.
Have You Heard From Johannesburg? is a powerful seven-part documentary about one of the most fascinating events of the last century. A story full of violence, heroism and struggles, with real heroes and real villains. It’s a story that travels all over the world, from Africa to Australia, from Sweden to the USA. It’s a story of change. Of movements that shook up governments across the world, that forced big companies to their knees, and changed the minds of millions of people. It’s a story of how the people of the world – very often against the opinions of their governments – destroyed apartheid in South Africa. The series is made up of seven stories from around the world, including South Africa and plays an important role in opening the eyes of South Africans.
Zoned
Starts Thursday, 17 May at 18:30 (continues on Thursdays)
Zoned, featuring presenters Boitumelo Thulo and Mpumi Mbethe, is a brand-new interactive multi-platform user-generated magazine reality show for young people by young people. The 26-episode show encourages young people to capture interesting images and video footage about themselves using their phones and share it with viewers countrywide.
The uploaded material is viewed and the five best stories, as voted for by others, make it into the show. The selected reality stars are then given a state-of-the-art video phone in order to best capture their experiences according to a set of guidelines.
The show will include a well-known young celebrity who viewers will get to interact with at a more personal level. Besides the reality inserts, the show will include other interactive features including: talent competitions, fashion zone, short film zone, comedy zone, social responsibility zone, entrepreneurial zone, gaming zone and much more.
Tshisa: season three
Starts Friday, 25 May at 20:00 (continues on Fridays)
The third season of this local drama series is about growing up in a changing world. Redemption comes in different forms and along very different paths for the four childhood friends who have played with fame and burned their fingers. The only thing they can be sure of is that redemption isn’t achieved like a bolt from the blue. It has to be worked for.
Some wounds are self-inflicted, some get you in the crossfire, some you are born into. The consequence of an addictive personality, a messy sibling rivalry and too much partying has shattered Bafana’s world. His true love Precious reels from the consequences of her friends’ actions and could end up on the same path by virtue of her modelling career. Drugs have turned kwaito star Baksteen into a criminal. His homegirl Lindiwe has lied her way into a secure home but faces ruin. But it’s his groupie Noxie who’s hit bottom hardest. Meanwhile, Ayanda can make it in business, but not in love. She resorted to trickery to win the man she wants.
If they’re going to learn to love themselves, turn their lives around and succeed in the grown-up world then they’re going to have to look inside themselves – at what’s causing their need to trip themselves up. Personal demons, blame, forgiveness, family and identity become the big sub-themes in Tshisa 3.
18th Annual South African Music Awards (The Repeat Show)
Saturday, 26 May at 20:00
For the benefit of viewers who missed out on the live event at Sun City, the excitement, the glitz, glamour and glory of the 18th Annual MTN South African Music Awards will be repeated on the Mzansi Fo Sho screens. TheSAMAs are South Africa’s premier music awards ceremony, held annually to recognise the accomplishment in the local recording industry by celebrating those groups and individuals who have excelled across the many genres and the various facets of the industry, including production, engineering and video production.
PSL Awards – Live
Sunday, 27 May at 20:00
The awards are an annual ceremony in celebration of best performances in the PSL league. The awards event is held in recognition of sterling performances by the participating teams, players and coaches for the season. The categories includes: Absa Premiership Player of the Season; Absa Premiership Coach of the Season; Absa Premiership Red Hot Young Player of the Season; Absa Premiership Goalkeeper Player; Absa Premiership Absa-lutely Awesome Goal; and, Absa Premiership Players Player of the season (voted by the players).
