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The Best TV Shows on SABC 2

Every SABC 2 Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Boasting a rich catalog, SABC 2 features more than 20 shows, with broadcasting dates ranging from 1985 to 2023. Leading the pack on SABC 2 are Agter Elke Man and Orkney Snork Nie, with their initial broadcasts in 1985 and 1989. Discover the best of SABC 2 with our list of over 20 series, meticulously updated for February 2025.

  • Orkney Snork Nie
    Orkney Snork Nie (1989)9.0

    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.

  • Vetkoekpaleis
    Vetkoekpaleis (1996)9.0

    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
    Supersterre (2006)9.0

    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.

  • Erfsondes
    Erfsondes (2007)9.0

    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
    Onder Draai Die Duiwel Rond (1997)8.5

    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.

  • Agter Elke Man
    Agter Elke Man (1985)8.0

    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
    Fishy Fêshuns (1999)8.0

    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.

  • Shoreline
    Shoreline (2009)8.0

    Explore the nearly 3000 kilometers of South African coastline – stretching from the desert border with Namibia on the Atlantic coast southwards around the tip of Africa and then north to the border with Mozambique on the Indian Ocean.

  • Noot vir Noot
    Noot vir Noot (1991)7.8

    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.

  • Strictly Come Dancing South Africa
    Strictly Come Dancing South Africa (2006)7.0

    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.

  • Supa Strikas
    Supa Strikas (2009)7.0

    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
    Stokvel (2003)6.0

    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
    SA's Got Talent (2009)6.0

    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).

  • 7de Laan
    7de Laan (2000)5.0

    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…

  • Andries Plak
    Andries Plak (2007)5.0

    Andries Plak is a South African comedy-drama television series about a farmer who lost his farm in a legal dispute and is forced to squat in a shack with his former farm manager, which slowly changes his attitude towards people and life.

  • Die Sentrum
    Die Sentrum (2021)4.0

    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
    Deal or No Deal (2023)1.0

    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.

  • Zero Tolerance
    Zero Tolerance (2004)N/A

    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.

  • Hard Copy
    Hard Copy (2005)N/A

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

  • Swartwater
    Swartwater (2014)N/A

    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.