South Africa boasts one of the largest television production industries in Africa. The South African Broadcast Corporation (SABC) is one of the largest broadcasters in Africa and a significantly large library of South African television content. During Apartheid the SABC focused on Afrikaans and English content but after the end of Apartheid it was restructured to include the languages and cultures of all South Africans. The led to massive increase in the television production and the birth of the South African TV classics like Suburban Bliss.
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Suburban Bliss was one of the first Post-Apartheid Sit-Coms in South Africa. It focused on the rocky relationship between a black and a white family who recently became neighbours in what was formerly an exclusively white neighbourhood. These two families are forever at each other’s throats – in the friendliest way possible, of course – as one misunderstanding after another arises out of ordinary day-to-day issues. The wives have a permanent vendetta going. One regards the other as a low class slob, and the “low class slob” thinks her neighbour is a pretentious yuppie, with little besides airs and graces. The only two people who seem to get on in this shambles of neighbourly chaos are the husbands, who spent their days trying to make peace between their feuding clans.
South Africa also has some of the best and longest running soap operas in Africa like Generations and Muvhango, which is one of the highest rated television shows in South Africa. Generations showcases the new South Africa as it explores the stories of the emerging South African Black middle-class.
Wabona is one of the only places online that has South African TV shows like Yizo Yizo, Gazlam, Suburban Bliss, Tsha Tsha, Society and the The Lab just to name a few.
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