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- Raped. Disemboweled. Nearly decapitated. Dumped on the outskirts of a nature reserve, dead - or so they thought. She needed a hero that night, so that's what she became. This is Alison's tale. A tale of monsters, miracles and hope.
- Dedicated maths teacher helps disadvantaged students and becomes entangled in the world of vigilante justice.
- Sitcom of the Van Tonder Family of Orkney. See the funny things that they get up to.
- When a single, alcoholic mother's state worsens, her high school daughter resorts to begging on the streets to support their family.
- The story of a man with a military background, Ivan Malan, and his partner, Paul Schmidt, who plan and carry out a theft from a gang boss. The prize is the Flame Girl - a painting by the master painter Vermeer that is worth EUR30 million.
- This beautifully filmed series introduce 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.
- Deep Waters - love, secrets, intrigue and plans for revenge.
- 18 city slickers are giving up their comfortable city life to muck in on Ewan Strydom's dusty Swartland farm and do all that dirty work, in two teams, for 21 days. In the end only one can take home the 1 Million in prize money.
- Spoorloos (Trackless) takes place in a small village that has become a ghost town following a series of unsolved mysteries including a devastating serial killer case. Thirteen years later the serial killer suddenly returns.
- In the heart of Mpumalanga, in the small town of Fransbrug, is the Fransen Hotel. Once the highlight of the small town, it now barely manages a 1 out of 5 on TripAdvisor. "Hotel" (2016) is an Afrikaans mockumentary about middle-aged manager Ferdie Kruger and his small-town staff who struggle to keep the doors of the hotel open. It is taken over by the bigger hotel group, Lourier, and young consultant Thomas van As is sent to improve the small hotel's standards. However, Ferdie's and Thomas' management skills differ, and the series follows their comic feud to put their personal mark on the hotel. The series is written by Bennie Fourie (Vuil Wasgoed) and Stiaan Smith (Sy Klink Soos Lente).
- Entrapped in his apartment, Randal Hendricks, a recent paraplegic, is given a gift of binoculars by his devoted girlfriend, Pam. But Randal is in financial debt to Emmie, a sadistic loan shark, and when he witnesses a powerful criminal, named Lawyer, commit murder while observing his neighbours through binoculars, he initiates a treacherous blackmail scheme. Involving Warren, his halfwit friend with unabashed lust for Pam, is probably going to cost him, but with few people to turn to, Randal does it anyway and as circumstances become more complicated, Pam is embroiled in the unravelling chain of events. Before long, a detective, named Gail February comes snooping around the neighbourhood, looking for the missing corrupt cop - her partner. As Lawyer begins his own investigation in an attempt to find his blackmailer, Emmie compounds the pressure of his looming deadline, and Detective February's investigation draws her ever closer to Randal, the wheelchair-bound Randal must rely on the physical capabilities of his reluctant girlfriend to see their plan through. With deception and greed around every corner, what follows is a thrilling ride that puts both of their lives in mortal danger.
- On her 29th birthday, Aletta Vlok gets wedding fever. She starts arranging her wedding before she even has a man. Boetie Bouwer, a mechanic, is convinced that he is the man for Aletta, but when the big day arrives, everything goes wrong.
- A makeover of restaurants and eateries is carried out by a chef, a makeover specialist, and their team of contractors.
- Drafted into the South African army during apartheid, a young soldier joins the military's travelling choir, and romance on the battlefield causes him to deal with his long-repressed sexual identity.
- A coloured woman living in the arid Karoo takes in a lost white child and raises him as her own. Nine years later, the boy is removed and forced to live in the Knysna Forest with a family of woodcutters who claim that he is theirs.
- Missing persons and kidnapping is on the rise and a special task force team is assembled to pay particular attention to solving these types of crimes.
- Magda Louw tells the story of Magda and her husband Erhard, who participate in a reality series, where a camera crew follows them to document their day to day life, with some unexpected twists and turns.
- Afrikaans language medical drama stories based around the staff and patients at the Beyers Naudé Academic Hospital, a state hospital in Johannesburg and the top training hospital in the country.
- Focuses on the personal and professional lives of several women living in Pretoria, South Africa.
- Six housewives start businesses, dress for success, zip around in style, follow disciplined beauty routines and balance it all with their demanding personal lives.
- How far will one man go to get everything he wants?
- A murder mystery that plays out on a luxury game farm, Granietfontein, which is inherited by one Bertus du Toit. His two brothers - Jaap and Frans - are bitterly unhappy that he is the one to inherit the farm and will do anything to deny him his windfall. They begin plotting ways to bring about his downfall, ranging from ancestral spirits to drugs, wild animals and a seductress. Things start going horribly wrong and soon someone lands in a morgue with a tag on their toe. Who could it be, and who are the suspects? The three brothers form the core of the story along with Bertus' son Rudolph (Hykie Berg), who is battling demons in his own soul. But all the other characters get their moment in the spotlight - or the blinding light of the truth.
- Poena loses his singing job on a cruise ship and moves to Paternoster to take over the family business, Poen's Plumbing. Then follows much fun and games.
- "Begeertes" is a series about the love intrigues and life dramas of a group of people in East London. The main character, Anton Schoeman, is struggling to cope while taking care of his sick mother. His dream of earning his own fortune is made possible by rich businessman Hugo Wessels. All of the characters find keeping their pasts hidden difficult. Anton learns the identity of his biological father and experiences love at first sight with Annalien, whose mother shot and killed her father. Hugo, who lost his wife and daughter in an accident, marries a younger woman who tries to keep him ignorant of her past at all costs.
- Three estranged brothers find their way back to the family farm, Nêrens, where secrets, heartbreak and the truth surrounding their mother's death threaten the path to redemption.
- Set during a incredibly tumultuous period of the Afrikaners' development between 1914 and 1948, the story follows the lives of four young men--Willem, P.G., Gerhard, and Bennie--poor white miners who become involved in the 1914 Rebellion by chance. When the Rebellion is unsuccessful, the four young men find themselves at a crossroads: do they continue as before, or do they fight for freedom and a better future? They make the choice to fight, but each in his own way: Bennie through the church and politics, Willem through radical resistance, P.G. by means of the written word, and Gerhard through the trade unions. There and then they decide to cut open their hands and swear a pact to be blood brothers until the end. We follow their lives and see how each one falls in love and starts his own family, survives through the chaos of the 1922 mine workers' rebellion, the Depression of the 1930s, the uncertain times during World War II, and the buildup to the infamous 1948 election. But to share blood and swear to be blood brothers is one thing. To honor that oath through all the twists and turns of life is something completely different, especially when your life choice stands in stark contrast to that of your blood brother.
- A hopeful bachelor meets up with a selection of eligible young ladies with the ultimate aim of finding love, and maybe even a life partner in marriage.
- Magazine programme in Afrikaans on kykNET, covering profiles and stories about ordinary people doing interesting things. Mostly filmed in South Africa.
- Medea falls in love with a charming farmer and leaves her life behind in the city. But Medea struggles to find her place in her husband's dreams of transforming their dairy farm into a meat farm.
- Ouma en Oupa sit op die Stoep ... was written and directed by Leon Kruger. The program is based on the eponymous stage production. It's a situation comedy built around the actors Lida and Johan Botha, who make their appearance as Stanley and Deborah Vermeulen, or Grandpa and Grandma. It deals with various aspects of growing older and their adjustment to be grandparents. Deborah's niece, Anna, lives with them in the house, and Patience is the insistence of their son, Seuna appointed as their nurse.
- ShowMax and kykNET have collaborated to produce a Showmax-exclusive series called "Waterfront". The star-studded family drama is set in the underworld of one of South Africa's leading tourist destinations, the V&A Waterfront. Ship-construction patriarch Ben Myburgh has died. His three estranged daughters, Julia, Anna, and Kate, must return to the family boat-building business in the Cape Town harbour. This dark story of secrecy, sibling rivalry, and cutthroat business practices, where one will do anything to survive, takes a twist when only one of Ben's daughters inherits the family's business empire.
- ALLES MALAN is a 13 episode drama series that follows the day-to-day lives of a contemporary, ordinary, yet fun-loving Afrikaans family in and around Paarl, South Africa.
- Residents of a cul-de-sac in a middle-class neighborhood are debating whether to have a wall built around them to keep the danger out. Little do they know that a whistleblower in witness protection has just moved in.
- A woman with a traumatic past, stopped playing piano due to her eyesight deteriorating. Her husband is invited to a rich man's farm where no one could have forseen the nightmare ahead of them!
- The "Spreeus" take on cases that make other detectives' hair stand on end. Bas and Beatrice are the fearless members of an investigative unit which tracks crime into other worlds.
- A hapless streaker, seeking to win the heart of a strait-laced single mom, must find a way to bear his soul rather than his buttocks.
- In a town called Schusterton, there is a security company that looks after its residents. There are only two problems. Nothing ever happens in Schusterton, and the company boss was sent to prison for all kinds of irregularities.
- The story is set in the mountains of Kwazulu-Natal on the farm Donkerland. It follows the lives and times of seven generations of the De Witt family, from the Groot Trek in 1838 until 1996.
- A law enforcement officer has to remove homeless people in order to make way for a 10km fun-run.
- When their car breaks down in the middle of the night, two business partners walk along the desolate highway until they manage to find a motel room. Just after settling in, however, they discover a dead body in the closet.
- Strangers join forces to complete a challenge that will test them physically and mentally. Contestants must work together to build a bridge to an island, where a cash prize is hidden, but just one contestant will walk away with the prize.
- Five friends have a successful IT company that is about to be sunk by a corrupt government worker. In a moment of vengeful frustration, they start a Secure Drop website where whistleblowers can upload proof of corruption while keeping their identity secret. They receive a document from someone under the pseudonym "Leonard0". This document reveals the possible collusion between corrupt agents in the South African State Security Agency (SSA), politicians and ISIS-agents selling a seventh atom bomb made in South Africa in the late 1980s. This is how the group is dragged into an international plot that plays off in Johannesburg, South Africa. Friendships, loyalties, love, and stamina will be tested to the limits as the web becomes tighter and they get pulled into a shadowy world of espionage, corporate corruption, murder, terrorism, and the deep-web underworld.
- Annabel (Tinarie van Wyk Loots), a journalist, returns to Maanhaarsdrif after receiving death threats in Cape Town for working on a story about corruption. Maanhaarsdrif may be light years away from Annabel's life as a journalist, but the effects of the publication of her shocking articles follow her into the Karoo, with terrifying consequences for her and her loved ones.
- A man loves rugby more than his wife.
- A series of five episodes set in the same hotel room. Five different stories, five different genres and Marcelina, the charming yet incompetent hotel cleaner.
- A group of parents watch an Under 8s rugby match.
- Bandits steal a cowboy's cattle while he is being distracted by a beautiful woman. But the bandits are car thieves, the cowboy is a car guard, the cattle are cars, and the cowboy's muse a barmaid. The theft sends Cowboy Dan on a mission to retrieve the car and find justice in the criminal underworld of Cape Town, with scared hobo Zancas as his only help and unlikely sidekick. "Cowboy Dan" is a reinterpretation of the classic Western with a Cape flavour through the eyes of a modern "Man from La Mancha".