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The Best TV Shows on SABC 2

Every SABC 2 Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Leading the pack on SABC 2 are Nommer Asseblief and Koöperasiestories, with their initial broadcasts in 1979 and 1983. SABC 2 has delivered an expansive roster of over 20 shows, dating from 1979 all the way to 2024. Check out the most acclaimed shows on SABC 2, with a catalog of over 20 series updated for December 2024.

  • Dikolong
    Dikolong (1990)10.0

    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
    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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • The Taste Master SA Junior
    The Taste Master SA Junior (2024)7.0

    Showcasing the best young bakers from across South Africa. Based on the original award-winning baking competition reality show, the junior edition sees 12 exciting talents between the ages of 13 and 17 years old compete for a grand prize worth more than R200 000.

  • Supa Strikas
    Supa Strikas (2009)6.9

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

  • 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…

  • Voetspore
    Voetspore (2000)5.0

    Following four men as they travel from Morocco to the Cape with a 4x4. Explaining what is needed to know about travelling through Africa.

  • 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.

  • Onder Die Suiderkruis
    Onder Die Suiderkruis (2018)5.0

    Onder die Suiderkruis (Under the Southern Cross) is a South African, Afrikaans-language period drama television series which tells the story of a number of entrepreneurs thrown together by their quest for riches, told over a period of many years.

  • 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.

  • Nommer Asseblief
    Nommer Asseblief (1979)N/A

    1979. Comedy. Afrikaans. This popular series follows the lives of the De Waal family, friends and rivals in the small town of Overberg. The resident town gossip, Tant Lissie, spends most of her day listening in on people's phone conversations through the phone exchange causing much mayhem and confusion.

  • Koöperasiestories
    Koöperasiestories (1983)N/A

    Kooperasie Stories was an Afrikaans TV series that was short-lived by the well-known Afrikaans author P.G. du Plessis was based. The series deals with the daily events and people in the village of Gezinasrus, which is discussed by three people who sit on the cooperative's porch every day.

  • Die Vierde Kabinet
    Die Vierde Kabinet (1998)N/A

    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.

  • 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.