Stay up-to-date with over 20 of SABC 2’s elite series, with our list refreshed for August 2025. Leading the pack on SABC 2 are 7de Laan and Takalani Sesame, with their initial broadcasts in 2000 and N/A. SABC 2’s extensive portfolio includes more than 20 shows, spanning the years from 2000 to 2021.
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.
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.
Fishy Fêshuns is a South African television sitcom based on the 1960s BBC sitcom The Rag Trade by Ronald Wolfe and Ronald Chesney which revolves around the goings on between workers and their boss in a clothing factory in Cape Town.
Noot vir Noot is an iconic South African musical game show produced by Stemmburg Television which features contestants who put their popular music expertise to the test by playing the show's musical games in a series of challenges.
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…
The G.A.T.T. Department, the Gauteng Department of Tenders and Tests, is managed by Frans Roos. His department was moved from the eleventh floor to the basement, the staff was reduced from 33 to 3 and he reports directly to Ms. Mammabolo, the chair woman of the council. The other staff consists of Lulu Roux, the receptionist, Koos Koekemoer, the senior technician, and Dickey Abrahams, junior technician. Koos' wife, Bessie, is a fine berry and she is often there to check on Koos. Poena Pieterse is supposed to be the department's messenger but is almost full-time busy with personal tasks for Me. Mammabolo.
Strictly Come Dancing is a South African reality dance competition television series produced by Rapid Blue and based on the British show of the same name in which celebrities are partnered with professional Latin and Ballroom dancers and must work each week on perfecting a dance routine, with public voting deciding a weekly elimination.
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.
SA's Got Talent (also known as South Africa's Got Talent or shorten to SAGT) is a South African television show that's part of the Got Talent series. Singers, dancers, comedians, variety acts, and other performers compete against each other for audience support. The winner of each season received R500,000 (R250,000 in Seasons 1 to 5).
Following four men as they travel from Morocco to the Cape with a 4x4. Explaining what is needed to know about travelling through Africa.
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.
Takalani Sesame is the South African version of the children's television program Sesame Street. Co-produced by Sesame Workshop and South African partners, Takalani Sesame is now in its 10th year. Takalani Sesame is a uniquely South African interpretation of the Sesame model engaging children and their parents and promoting basic school readiness, literacy, numeracy, and health and hygiene. Takalani Sesame also has a special focus on HIV/AIDS awareness and seeks to introduce HIV/AIDS safety while promoting tolerance and reducing stigma. The Takalani series also includes a popular radio program, a newspaper and magazine comic strip series, and a national Talk to ME Campaign which encourages adults to talk to their children about HIV/AIDS and related issues. The introduction of an HIV-positive muppet for this purpose was widely misunderstood by the U.S. political right, with such groups as the American Family Association mistaking it as a means for homosexual activists to influence young viewers. It incorporates all of South Africa's 11 national languages, including Afrikaans, English, Zulu, Xhosa, Swazi, Ndebele, Sesotho, Northern Sotho, Tsonga, Tswana and Venda.
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.
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.