The Best TV Shows on SABC 2

Every SABC 2 Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Some of the best tv shows from SABC 2 include Agter Elke Man and Orkney Snork Nie, airing in 1985 and 1989 respectively. Boasting a rich catalog, SABC 2 features more than 20 shows, with broadcasting dates ranging from 1985 to 2023. As of November 2025, our compilation of SABC 2’s top-rated series boasts over 20 unique shows.

  • 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.

  • Arsenaal
    Arsenaal (2002)8.0

    Arsenaal is a South African, Afrikaans-language thriller drama television series created, written and directed by Jan Scholtz and produced by his production company Scholtz Films which is set against the backdrop of investigative journalism, corrupt security companies and corrupt police.

  • 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.

  • 7de Laan
    7de Laan (2000)7.5

    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…

  • Supa Strikas
    Supa Strikas (2009)7.3

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

  • Gautêng-alêng-alêng
    Gautêng-alêng-alêng (2003)7.0

    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.

  • 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).

  • 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.

  • Torings
    Torings (1994)N/A

    Torings (Towers) is a South African period drama television series created by Paul C. Venter as a sequel to his series Konings which continues to tell the story of the fierce and often bloody struggle between the Groenewald and Roodt families for control of the Superspaar company, placed in the context of the larger political post-Apartheid struggle in South Africa. The Konings/Torings saga is the story of the fierce and often bloody struggle between Dolf Groenewald (Dawid Minnaar) and Herman Roodt (Albert Maritz) for control of the Superspaar company, placed in the context of the larger political post-Apartheid struggle in South Africa. The eternal feud between the Groenewalds and Roodts becomes fiercer as Dolf recovers from his stroke and from the beginning is a threat for the Roodts

  • 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.