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SABC shines at this year's SAFTA Awards
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It's official. SABC 2's Afrikaans soapie, 7de Laan, is South Africa's favourite television soapie. The soapie was voted the Best Overall Soapie at the 4th South African Film and Television Awards (SAFTAs) held in Pretoria over the weekend.
The aim of the SAFTA awards is to celebrate and reward creative excellence within the South African film and television industry.
In the run up to the event, viewers were asked to vote for their favourite soapie by sending through an sms with their vote, to a dedicated number. The category is unique in that it is the only category where television viewers get to choose their best television show; instead of judges making that decision.
But the night belonged to SABC 1 Mzansi Fo Sho, as the channel's shows grabbed the lion’s share of the awards. The channel's 'A place called home' walked away with the most awards including Best Director in a TV Drama; Best Editor; and Art Director; among other awards. The award for Best Actress in a TV Drama, and Soapie, went to the channel's 'Sokhulu and Partners' (Linda Sokhulu), and 'Generations' (Katlego Danke, pictured) shows respectively. 'Generations' also received the Best Actor award.
"Channel takes this opportunity to salute all the winning titles for bringing back home the Golden Horns. We recognise the hard work and commitment by all involved; the commissioning and production teams; as well as the sterling performances by actors and actresses, ensuring that SABC1 Mzansi Fo Sho remains the undisputed Mzansi’s official storyteller,” said SABC1 Publicity Manager, Vukile Madlala.
Under the category of Television Non-fiction, SABC 1's 'Big Up' received the award for Best Youth and Children Programme. Overall, the channel walked away with 18 Golden Horns.
Not far behind was the station for the nation, SABC 2, which, besides it's soapie walking away with the Best Overall Soapie award, also saw some of its shows take some of the Golden ware for themselves. The channel's comedy show 'Stokvel' walked away with the Best Director and Actor in a Television Comedy award. But the least surprise of the evening would have gone to the channel's groundbreaking educational documentary show, 'Shoreline' which debuted in July last year to much public acclaim. The show deservedly took the award for the Best Factual Educational Entertainment programme; a feat it is bound to repeat given another opportunity. The channel also took the awards for Best Magazine Programme (50/50), Best Variety Show (Strictly Come Dancing), and Best Music Show (Jam Sandwich).
"SABC 2 continues to bring the best television to our viewers. It is through the interaction we have with them, and their input that we dish the best television ever, be it dramas, documentaries or reality programmes," said SABC 2 General Manager, Ms Bessie Tugwana.
"Heartfelt congratulations to all the SABC2 SAFTA winners and nominees for 2010, and thank you to the production houses for your hard work in bringing SABC2 the best offerings," said Ms Tugwana.
SABC 3's saving grace was their signature soapy 'Isidingo' which cleaned at the awards table, in its category. The soapy collected 5 out of the total 7 awards on offer. Among these were awards for the Best Supporting Actress, which went to the show's effervescent Kim Engelbrecht who plays the role of Lolly de Klerk; Best Supporting Actor, which went to Jack Devnarain who plays the role of Rajesh Kumar; and the Best Direction and Writing team. The sixth award for the channel came from their Drama show, 'The Lab', which took the award for the Best Ensemble Cast in a TV Drama.
But at the end of the evening, the real winner was without a doubt the SABC as the broadcaster rubbished the competition walking away with a total of 34 out of 39 applicable category awards; making the competition irrelevant in the broadcasting space.
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