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TV Shows & Series: Best TV Shows/Series in Afrikaans

Afrikaans ( AF-rih-KAHNSS, AHF-, -⁠KAHNZ) is a West Germanic language, spoken in South Africa, Namibia and (to a lesser extent) Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe. It evolved from the Dutch vernacular of South Holland (Hollandic dialect) spoken by the predominantly Dutch settlers and enslaved population of the Dutch Cape Colony, where it gradually began to develop distinguishing characteristics in the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Although Afrikaans has adopted words from other languages, including German and the Khoisan languages, an estimated 90 to 95% of the vocabulary of Afrikaans is of Dutch origin. Differences between Afrikaans and Dutch often lie in the more analytic morphology and grammar of Afrikaans, and different spellings. There is a large degree of mutual intelligibility between the two languages, especially in written form. ()

Afrikaans is spoken in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Botswana and Zambia and 22 TV shows/series (between 1987 and 2024) with this language have been recorded so far. Most of these TV shows/series were shot in South Africa (21). Popular genres for Afrikaans TV shows/series are Drama (12), Reality-TV (3) and Soap / Telenovela (3). Binnelanders (2005-), Egoli: Place of Gold (1992-2010), Projek Dina (2020-), Vallei van Sluiers (2010-2015) and 7de Laan (2000-2023) are among the best known & most successful Afrikaans TV shows/series.

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Binnelanders(2005-)

Soap / Telenovela
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

Projek Dina(2020-)

Drama
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.

Vallei van Sluiers(2010-2015)

Drama
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.

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…

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.

With Zack du Plessis

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.

Die Boekklub(2016-)

Drama
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.

Spinners(2023-)

52min per episode | Crime, Drama
3.9/5 (with 2 votes)

Ethan is a 17-year-old driver working for a local gang. Disgusted with gang life, Ethan discovers a possible way out via spinning, an extreme motorsport. But the looming gang war jeopardises that hope.

Hartklop(2023-)

Drama
4.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A group of brilliant newly graduated doctors are thrown together in the corridors of the Beyers Naudé Academic Hospital, where they perform miracles to save the lives of their patients - regardless of the cost to themselves.

Die Real Housewives van die Wynlande(2023-)

48min per episode | Reality-TV
4.3/5 (with 1 vote)

A reality series that gives an exclusive look and follows the lives of 6 unique, interesting and dynamic women from the Winelands and their lavish lifestyles.

4 Walls(2021)

25min per episode | Drama

The Afrikaans drama plays off in a hotel room somewhere in South Africa over five episodes each with its own story, characters, and genres. The episodes are linked together by Marceline, the charming housekeeper with her head in the clouds. She leads the string of diverse characters through their own personal struggles, romances, and tragedies.

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Hartland(2011)

Drama
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

This beautifully filmed series introduces us to four generations of an Afrikaner family. We soon discover that Ouma Cilliers and her descendents are hiding some juicy secrets from one another.

Die Real Housewives van Pretoria(2022-)

48min per episode | Reality-TV
5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A reality series that gives an exclusive look and follows the lives of 6 unique, interesting and dynamic women from Pretoria and their lavish lifestyles.

Vetkoekpaleis(1996-1997)

Comedy, Kids & Family
4.5/5 (with 1 vote)

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.

Donkerbos(2022-)

Crime, Drama
3.6/5 (with 5 votes)

When the bodies of six children are found in the backwater forests of Donkerbos, Limpopo, an ostracised detective must wrestle with her dark past, her family and a distrustful community to catch the killer before another child is taken.

Torings(1994)

Drama

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

Arsenaal(2002)

45min per episode | Drama, Crime
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

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.

Geraldina Die Tweede(2006)

50min per episode | Comedy

Katie Tredoux, resident of the retirement village, Stille Waters, finds out that her deceased sister, the infirm Geraldina de Jongh's estate, was unfortunately bankrupt. She is furious and seeks help from her friends, Greta, Dak and Cyril, co-residents of Huis Stille Waters, to make a plan to keep Geraldina alive. They decide to confront the wealthy businessman Claudius van Straatten (Geraldina's former husband). However, they would never have been able to provide for what great escapades they would end up with.

Ballade Vir 'n enkeling(1987)

Drama

Ballade Vir 'n Enkeling (Ballad for a Loner) is an Afrikaans language drama set in 1985 that centres around the search by a young journalist for her colleague and fellow journalist Jacques Rynhard following his sudden, mysterious disappearance. As the story begins Jacques has just been awarded the Basson Prize for his novel Die Enkeling, but he disappears before the announcement is made. Otto Beukes, the editor of the magazine Die Huisvriend, decides to follow up on the story and puts top journalist Carina Human on the story. In a quest to find out where Jacques has gone and why he's disappeared Human begins the search for him by locating to the people closest to him.

Devilsdorp(2021)

1h 1min per episode | Documentary
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

In 2016 a spate of brutal and mysterious killings grips the town of Krugersdorp. Is a serial killer behind these vicious attacks, and who will die next if the police don't catch them? The investigation into these so-called Appointment Murders, leads local detectives to a series of unsolved cold cases linked to satanism, and opens the door on a cult ruled by terror, greed and revenge

Die Uitdaging(2024-)

Reality-TV
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

In ten episodes, intrepid travel and lifestyle content creator Iana Strydom challenges ten of South Africa's most beloved celebrities to take on ten adrenaline-packed outdoor activities.