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South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA or R.S.A.), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by 2,798 kilometres (1,739 mi) of coastline that stretches along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring countries of Namibia, Botswana, and Zimbabwe; and to the east and northeast by Mozambique and Eswatini. It also completely enclaves Lesotho. It is the southernmost country on the mainland of the Old World, and the second-most populous country located entirely south of the equator, after Tanzania. South Africa is a biodiversity hotspot, with unique biomes, plant and animal life. With over 62 million people, the country is the world's 23rd-most populous nation and covers an area of 1,221,037 square kilometres (471,445 square miles). Pretoria is the administrative capital, while Cape Town, as the seat of Parliament, is the legislative capital. Bloemfontein has traditionally been regarded as the judicial capital. The Constitutional Court, the country's highest court, is located in Johannesburg. About 80% of the population are Black South Africans. The remaining population consists of Africa's largest communities of European (White South Africans), Asian (Indian South Africans and Chinese South Africans), and mult... ()

Filming locations in this country: Cape Town

Languages used in South Africa: English | Afrikaans | Xhosa | Zulu | Tswana | Sesotho | Tsonga | Swati | Ndebele | Venda


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Binnelanders(2005-)

3.0/5 (with 18 votes)

A South African Afrikaans soap opera. It is set in and around the fictional private hospital, Binneland Kliniek, in Pretoria, and the storyline follows the trials, trauma and tribulations of the staff and patients of the hospital.

Egoli: Place of Gold(1992-2010)

22min per episode | Soap / Telenovela
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A South African television soap opera created by Franz Marx which revolves around the daily ups, downs, trials and tribulations of a handful of families in and around Johannesburg (which is often referred to as eGoli - the City of Gold)

With Sean Michael, Jordan Shade, Elizabeth Jeanne le Roux

Surviving Escobar - Alias JJ(2017)

TV-MA
| 45min per episode | Drama, Crime
3.9/5 (with 511 votes)

As the Medellín Cartel crumbles, Pablo Escobar's No. 1 hit man struggles to stay alive and gain respect in the prison hierarchy.

Survivor South Africa(2006-)

3.7/5 (with 4 votes)

The South African edition of the Survivor reality television game show format in which contestants are isolated in a remote location and progressively eliminated by the vote of their fellow contestants.

Shaka Zulu(1986)

TV-14
| 55min per episode | Drama, Action & Adventure, War & Politics
3.6/5 (with 60 votes)

South Africa, 1823. The Zulu Empire, headed by King Shaka, a brilliant but ruthless military strategist, begin to encroach on the British colony of Cape Town. A volunteer cadre of explorers, mercenaries and professional soldiers are sent to Zululand to try to make contact with Shaka and assess the real threat of his army.

Directed by William C. Faure - With Henry Cele

The Wild(2011-2013)

2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

The Wild is a South African soap opera created by Rohan Dickson, Richard Nosworthy and Bronwyn Berry and produced by M-Net's in-house production arm Magic Factory and shot entirely on location which revolves around three families – the Lebones, the van Reenens and the Tladis - who, because of past conflicts, struggle to negotiate a cohesive future, despite being bound together by their relationship to a special piece of land.

Projek Dina(2020-)

4.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A south African series that takes place in the work and life environment of the emergency response task force, where the pressure is sky high and the room for error is tiny. Now that the task force has just been set up by the Western Cape police - as a way to combat the rapidly increasing cases of missing persons in South Africa - the members of the task force have a seemingly impossible task at hand: to find the missing persons in Cape Town and bring them home one by one.

Supa Strikas(2009-2020)

NR
| 22min per episode | Animation
3.2/5 (with 4 votes)

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

Vallei van Sluiers(2010-2015)

3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A South African, Afrikaans-language television drama series which revolves around three well-known Boland fruit farming families - the De Bruyns, the Roberts' and the Van Rhijns - and the people who are drawn into their disasters, quarrels and scandals.

Reyka(2021-)

TV-MA
| 52min per episode | Crime, Drama, Mystery
2.4/5 (with 7 votes)

In 1994 South Africa, the daughter of a multiracial couple is kidnapped. She escapes and as an adult becomes a detective. Continuing to deal with her past trauma, Reyka Gama uses her skills to raise her child and solve mysteries that have challenged others.

With Kim Engelbrecht, Iain Glen, Nokuthula Ledwaba, Hamilton Dhlamini, Anna-Mart van der Merwe, Tamara Jozi, ...

Fatal Seduction(2023-)

TV-MA
| Mystery, Crime, Drama
3.5/5 (with 30 votes)

A married professor is pulled into a passionate affair with a younger man that uncovers a path of tragedy and betrayal from those closest to her.

Africa's Deadliest(2011-)

TV-PG
| 50min per episode | Documentary
3.5/5 (with 3 votes)

Africa is a land sculpted by time where animals have evolved complex weapons to arm them in the battle to live another day. An elephant's tusks can defend, or attack. An octopus uses camouflage to find food, or hide from an enemy. A Cape Fur Seal's speed and agility are valuable tools to catch a penguin, but ineffectual against a Great White Shark. A single hippopotamus holds a pride of twelve lions at bay with his sheer bulk, but backs down when faced with the piercing teeth of another hippo. With lethal weapons wielded by fearsome predators and prey, animals walk a precarious path, here among Africa's Deadliest.

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7de Laan(2000-2023)

30min per episode | Soap / Telenovela
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

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…

Dam(2021-)

3.4/5 (with 4 votes)

Set in an Eastern Cape farming community, the story follows Yola who returns home from Chile for her father's funeral, only to be met by the ghosts of her past.

Charlie Jade(2005)

3.5/5 (with 7 votes)

Charlie Jade is a science fiction television program filmed mainly in Cape Town, South Africa. It stars Jeffrey Pierce in the title role, as a detective from a parallel universe who finds himself trapped in our universe. This is a Canadian and South African co-production filmed in conjunction with CHUM Television and the South African Industrial Development Corporation. The special effects were produced by the Montreal-based company Cinegroupe led by Michel Lemire. The show started in 2004 and was aired on the Canadian Space Channel. It premiered on the Space Channel April 16, 2005 and aired in Eastern Europe, France, Italy, on SABC 3 in South Africa, on Fox Japan, and on AXN in Hong Kong. The show began airing in the United Kingdom in October 2007, on FX. The Sci Fi Channel in the United States premiered the show on June 6, 2008, but after 2 episodes on Friday prime-time, moved it to overnight Mon/Tue.

Love Island(2021-)

45min per episode | Reality-TV
0.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Sizzling singles hook up at an idyllic villa in the Cape in this local version of the internationally popular reality series Love Island. As the “Islanders” embark on the ultimate journey to try and find the perfect love, host Leandie du Randt will introduce the show’s secret twists, plots and love matchups, while the witty Warren Robertson navigates their love journey.

Supa Team 4(2023-)

3.1/5 (with 4 votes)

Four teens are just trying to survive secondary school when an ex-spy recruits them for her superhero team. Their newest assignment? Saving the world.

Scout's Safari(2002-2004)

3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Scout's Safari is a children's television series that aired on the Discovery Kids Channel and Saturday mornings on NBC. The series was created by Thomas W. Lynch.

Interster(1982-1986)

5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A South African Supermarionation children's television show about an undercover planetary defence agency operating from Cape Town under the guise of an interstellar shipping company. The show mirrored the real world political issues of international isolation facing Apartheid South Africa with the Earth being depicted as a galactic pariah of the "Interplanetary League" due to its cold war with the planet "Krokon". The villain in the series was depicted by Prince Karnati or his evil henchmen.

Life Is Wild(2007-2008)

1h per episode | Drama
3.0/5 (with 2 votes)

The story of a dysfunctional blended family from New York who moves to a rural South African town and finds they must rely on each other more than they ever did back home.

Known Gods(2005)

47min per episode | Drama

Deep in a lush valley are four wine farms and four wine families. Four families surrounded by mystery, love... and murder. Four wine farms - Rossow, Le Fortune des Vins, Smoorberg and Mount Jolley - exist in a crease in time in their valley, almost completely untouched by the outside world. Until the winemaker on Rossow, Deetlef Koen, is murdered. Described as a sexually voracious womanizer; a man of reckless extravagance and egocentricity, Koen's murder sets in motion a series of events that rip open the past, forcing the residents of the valley to acknowledge - and accept - their flawed history. Koen's many lovers, their spouses, a wine writer, an adopted daughter, an estranged ex-wife, a housekeeper, a head worker and the detective sent to investigate the crime - each one's life is irreversibly changed by the violent death.

Blood & Water(2020-)

TV-MA
| 48min per episode | Drama
4.0/5 (with 148 votes)

After crossing paths at a party, a Cape Town teen sets out to prove whether a private-school swimming star is her sister who was abducted at birth.

MasterChef South Africa(2012-)

45min per episode | Reality-TV
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Aspiring chefs go up against one another in a culinary competition that requires them to impress the judges by preparing various types of dishes and become the ultimate winner.

Orkney Snork Nie(1989-1992)

23min per episode | Comedy
4.5/5 (with 1 vote)

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.

Ludik(2022-)

TV-MA
| 1h per episode | Crime, Drama
3.8/5 (with 14 votes)

To save a kidnapped family member, an enterprising furniture tycoon must use his secret diamond smuggling operation to transport guns across the border.

Vlug Na Egipte(2015-)

48min per episode | Drama
4.8/5 (with 1 vote)

The fact that they are living in the house belonging to the Master - may rest in peace - some residents of Breipaal raise the armor, make others uncomfortable and then there are those who predict that nothing can be done here Not especially after the murder of one of the residents. When Master appeared in the Haasbroek daughter inexplicably one night, things began to take a path that nobody could provide. All four tensions sometimes high and sometimes they sometimes make them sleepy, all at 'The Paal' - Brown and White, Incommers and old residents - are just people who have to overcome many obstacles in order to realize their dreams and ideals and to fear their fears overcome.

Boarding House No. 24(2014)

1.0/5 (with 1 vote)

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Onder Draai Die Duiwel Rond(2001)

47min per episode | Comedy, Drama

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Dead Places(2021-)

45min per episode | Mystery, Drama
3.7/5 (with 50 votes)

An author who has dedicated his career to solving paranormal cases, returns home to South Africa to investigate the biggest mystery of his life: His sister's death in a water canal 20 years ago.

Die Boekklub(2016-)

4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

The series tells the story of Tom Niemandt who receives an unexpected call that leads him to the Karoo. While trying to make sense of Merweville, the village in the Karoo, he meets a group of people who change his life irrevocably.

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