{"id":7590,"date":"2021-05-24T17:46:31","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T17:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/sabc\/?p=7590"},"modified":"2021-05-24T17:46:31","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T17:46:31","slug":"media-statement-the-sabc-congratulates-all-its-winners-at-this-years-safta-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/media-statement-the-sabc-congratulates-all-its-winners-at-this-years-safta-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"MEDIA STATEMENT &#124; THE SABC CONGRATULATES ALL ITS WINNERS AT THIS YEAR\u2019S SAFTA AWARDS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong><em>Johannesburg, 24 May 2021 \u2013<\/em><\/strong> The South African Broadcasting Corporation would like to congratulate its television platform winners of this year\u2019s South African Film and Television Awards that were broadcast simultaneously on S3 and Mzansi Magic on Saturday the 22<sup>nd <\/sup>of May 2021.<br \/>\nWe congratulate <u>Entle Bizana<\/u>, who presents a youth programme, Hectic on 3, weekdays at 4pm on S3, for winning the <strong><em>TV Presenter of the Year Award<\/em><\/strong> for two years in the row, as voted by the public.<br \/>\n<u>Mothusi Magano<\/u> scored the award for <strong><em>Best Supporting Actor- TV Soap<\/em><\/strong>, for his sterling performance as Tumishang Maisela on Skeem Saam on SABC1. Commissioned for SABC2 for the first-time last year, The Riviera received 7 nominations and proudly walked away with the award for <strong><em>Best Achievement in Directing &#8211; TV Comedy<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>Best TV Comedy<\/em><\/strong><em>.<\/em> Congratulations to The Community Media Trust.<br \/>\n<strong><em>The Best Lifestyle Programme<\/em><\/strong> category saw SABC1\u2019 Come Again win the award, congratulations to Tshedza Media and a special acknowledgement to the late producer, <u>Takalani Mulaudzi<\/u>, who sadly passed away last month.<br \/>\nSABC2\u2019s children\u2019s programme Takalani Sesame won <strong><em>The Best Children\u2019s Programme<\/em><\/strong>, and Pale Ya Ko\u0161a won <strong><em>The Best Docu-reality Show<\/em><\/strong>. Well done to Ochre Media for producing the best quality children\u2019s programme and Full Circle Production for winning the best docu-reality show.<br \/>\nAlso produced by Ochre Media, SABC3\u2019s Made in Africa won <strong><em>The Best Educational Programme Award<\/em><\/strong>.<br \/>\nCongratulations to all the deserving winners of this year\u2019s awards and thank you to the public for voting in the Television Presenter of the Year award which saw Hectic on 3\u2019s Entle Bizana retain the crown.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nFor media enquiries<br \/>\nContact: &#8211;<br \/>\nCaroline Phalakatshela<br \/>\nPublicity Specialist \u2013 Video Entertainment<br \/>\n072\u00a0382 2032<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Johannesburg, 24 May 2021 \u2013 The South African Broadcasting Corporation would like to congratulate its television platform winners of this year\u2019s South African Film and Television Awards that were broadcast simultaneously on S3 and Mzansi Magic on Saturday the 22nd of May 2021. We congratulate Entle Bizana, who presents a youth programme, Hectic on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":8918,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7590"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}