The Best TV Shows on SABC 2

Dikolong is a Sesotho drama depicting college life at Tshiya College of Education, Qwaqwa, Free State, South Africa. Morobi and Mokwepa are troublesome college veteran students bullying freshmen and getting some of them into serious trouble. Tshediso from KwaThema, Gauteng, is one of the victims of bullying and is being advised by Mosala, a wise and sensible leader from Mmamahabane. Their roommates are Sello, an intelligent technician, from Phiritona and Maloka, an informant who is married with two kids.

Orkney 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.

Frikkadel Delport starts a take-away business when he is retrenched. In the process of finding his feet in his new venture, he appoints two staff members without really meaning to.

Supersterre is an Afrikaans language singing talent show created by South African singer Patricia Lewis and produced by Lewis and her husband Mark Whitfield in which contestants work with a celebrity coach each week and are eliminated by public vote until one winner remains.

A South African Afrikaans series about broken families and the lies and deceit within them and how sins committed to do good can come back to haunt families when they least expect it.

Onder Draai die Duiwel Rond is a South African television drama series created and written by Chris Barnard and produced by Sonneblom Films about beautiful people, good wine and respectable neighbours living on the banks of the Hartebeespoort Dam with lives that are seemingly idyllically peaceful and romantic, but which harbour deep secrets just beneath the surface of the facade.

The series follows Marietjie Barnhoorn, the estranged wife of a successful businessman; Leana Steyn, the private secretary of an elderly business tycoon, who is ruthless in her ambitions to overcome her impoverished past; and aging ballerina Mercia Meyer, who returns to South Africa after living and working abroad and has to deal with the hostility of her fellow South Africans.

7de Laan is an extraordinary microcosm where good and bad, evil and wholesome characters find themselves forming part of a wholesome community where no matter what – everyone counts and everyone cares…

With dreams of becoming Super League champions, a talented striker named Shakes and his football team take on rivals while going on global adventures.

Stokvel 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.

An Afrikaans language Do-It-Yourself show that gives step-by-step instructions on how to tackle various home improvement projects.

Die 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.

Deal or No Deal is a South African version of the international television game show created by John de Mol for Endemol Netherlands in which the core idea in all countries is the same: one contestant in a high thrills face-off with mystery suitcases. This is the second South African version of the show - the first aired for two seasons on M-Net, from 2007-2008.

Die Vierde Kabinet revolves around corruption in the police and the Organised Crime Unit, the hated internal investigation unit of the police who set traps for and spy on other police units to try and uncover corrupt members. The same corrupt police attempt to turn the tables by trying to find information about who is in this specialised unit. In 1993, shortly before the first democratic election in South Africa, a group of policemen rushed to get rid of files containing information about illegal police operations. The files were placed in filing cabinets, taken to a secret place and destroyed with explosives. But in the atmosphere of panic and disorder a cabinet - the so-called "fourth cabinet" - got lost and was forgotten. In 1997, Bonnie Badenhorst (Vanessa Pike), a policewoman attached to the special police unit investigating corruption, discovers the cabinet. Badenhorst, whose brother died in Angola, decides to remove the cabinet and hide it without informing her colleagues.

The story begins when Leendra van Hellberg (Deirdre Wolhuter) is released from prison after spending seven years incarcerated having being found guilty of murdering her lover. She returns home to her family in the small West Coast village of Soutmanspan, where her parents once owned a quarry before being killed in an explosion. Leendra believes the explosion was not an accident and is determined to find out who killed her parents. She believes that Gilbert Redelinghuys (André Odendaal), whose filthy rich father owns many properties in the town, had something to do with the murders. The Redelinghuys's also own a piece of land called Vlaktevlei which they used to lease to the municipality. That lease has now expired and the family wants the Coloured community living there to move out to make way for the development of a holiday resort.

Zero Tolerance is a South African police procedural television series which follows the adventures of an elite crime-fighting police unit similar to the Scorpions.

A struggling tabloid finds new direction when a crime reporter takes the helm and pivots writers back to bold investigative journalism.

After experiencing an unspeakable tragedy, a young suburban couples move to the small coastal town of Swartwater. They soon become embroiled with the local population and their intrigues and realize that all is not as it seems.

Pimville is a South African telenovela set in the heart of Soweto which follows the lives of various characters as they navigate complex relationships, secrets and power struggles. From reformed hustlers to strong matriarchs, each character brings their own story to the table. The series shines a light on the pulse of township life where dreams collide with reality, secrets unravel and family bonds are tested.

A multi-generational family story centered round a once-promised “Coloured paradise” that never materialized. It explores legacy, belonging and unresolved dreams.