ELECTION360 COVERS THE EFFECT OF ELECTIONS BROADCAST ON SABC1 AND SABC2

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Johannesburg, 5 April 2024 – In commemoration of 30 years of democracy and as a lead-up to the 6th general elections taking place on the 29th of May 2024, SABC News, in collaboration with SABC1 and SABC2 will launch an election-driven programme, Elections 360. 

Elections 360 is a comprehensive, current affairs show reflecting the 30 years since South Africa obtained democracy. It will look at how the lives of South Africans have been impacted since 1994, hand over the mic to the public and get them to express their lived experiences, the quality of democracy and how they’ve experienced it. The show aims to amplify the voices not usually heard with unedited content that will tell South African stories and tackle issues related to service delivery, community development, politics, and economics, including topics of interest for all South Africans. 

SABC1 will broadcast Election 360 daily, starting Monday the 8th of April, Mondays – Thursdays at 17:00, hosted by the multi-talented Mxolisi Masango. 

SABC2 will broadcast Election 360 weekly, the Sunday edition, starting on the 14th of April at 19:00, where award-winning broadcasters Sakina Kamwendo and Blain Herman will host the political party debates.

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AWE, WONDER AND SPECTACLE ON GAME OF TALENTS STARTING ON SABC2

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SABC2 introduces a new seven-part series, Game of Talents, on Thursdays at 19:00 from the 7th of March 2024.

Game of Talents is a spectacular guessing game show presented by Vernon Kay.

In each episode, two teams of contestants will battle it out to compete for the chance to win a life-changing sum of money, helped by two celebrities to make the right decisions before the performers “Show us your talent.”

The teams are of two players who know each other well and compete against one another as they try to correctly guess the hidden talents of a line-up of mystery performers. Each round is an entertaining mix of surprise and tension as talents are revealed and money is won or lost. Can the audience tell the fire eater from the footballer or the line dancer from the lion tamer? A list of eight extraordinary talents displayed on the board, and one by one, over seven rounds, the performers will take to the stage and introduce themselves – revealing only basic information.

In each round, the contestant can either play or pass to their opponents. A clue is given of the performing talent to the team trying to guess correctly and may be delivered by famous faces.

Before the performers reveal their talents, it’s time to find out how much their guess is worth. Seven ‘cash balls’ rise from a podium, each 1 displaying a different amount ranging from £500 to £10,000. How much is inside? And, more importantly, have the duo guessed the talent correctly?

For every correct guess a team makes, they bank the money inside their chosen cash ball, however, if they get it wrong the money goes over to the opposing team. Whoever has banked the most money after seven performances will go to the final round to play for their prize pot. Along the way, the host ups the stakes by adding cash balls of £20,000 and £50,000 into the game.

Only one duo can go through to the final, but will the contestant who gets through take home the money they have banked? In the final round, one talent remains on the board – which means the contestant and their celebrity teammate already know our final performer’s talent.

Therefore, to win their prize pot, they need to identify the performer out of the four strangers presented to them on stage. One is the remaining talented performer, and the other three are imposters.

Will the contestant and their celebrity partner be able to correctly guess who out of the line-up is the talented performer? It’s time to make their final guess. The remaining performers will take to the stage for a jaw-dropping finale. But has the contestant guessed correctly? Or could they fall at the final hurdle and lose everything?

Si La with Game of Talents, every Thursday at 19:00, only on SABC2.

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WIN A HOLIDAY EXPERIENCE WITH SABC TV LICENCES

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GRAND PRIZE WINNER REVEALED

Johannesburg, 20 February 2024-  On Spring Day, 1 September 2023 SABC TV Licences launched the Win A Holiday Experience competition campaign in an effort to encourage South African customers to pay (or, renew) their TV Licences.

For their efforts, customers would be rewarded with weekly prizes such as Hisense Smart TVs, JBL Bluetooth Speakers, Sony Wireless Headphones and Lenovo laptops. This would be done through a random selection automated by a dedicated microsite that was setup to monitor the competition entries.

In order to qualify for the prizes, the customer needed to pay their TV Licence between 1 September 2023 and 15 December 2023; then go to www.winaholidayexperiencewithsabctvlicences.co.za; register for the competition; receive a confirmation message stating that their entry is valid; then, a random winner would be selected each week from the valid entries.

To sweeten the deal, the overall winner for the competition would get to choose an international experience between the Coachella music festival in California, United States of America. Or, a Bundesliga match in Germany.

Thabo Batshe, a 26-year-old hailing from Kimberley, in the Northern Cape entered the Win A Holiday Experience with SABC TV Licences competition hoping he would get one of the weekly prizes.

“I was on Twitter, and I saw [the competition],” Batshe explained.

“After entering the competition because I had paid my TV Licence about a month ago, I saw a couple of winners on Twitter and Instagram, and I was really rooting for a Play Station because I saw that someone had won a Play Station” he continued.

Like many hopefuls, Thabo Batshe was redirected to the Win A Holiday Experience with SABC TV Licences microsite from social media – where he clicked on one of the links shared from the SABC Corporate pages. After filling out his TV Licence and personal contact details he received a confirmation message on his email account that informed him that his entry was valid and that he had been placed in the pool where a lucky winner would be randomly selected for either a weekly prize or the grand holiday experience.

Clement Maosa from SABC 1’s Skeem Saam broke the news to Thabo Batshe when they secretly met up at the Randburg Sports Complex earlier in the year. “Today is a big day because we are going to meet the winner of the SABC TV Licences’ Win A Holiday Experience competition,” Maosa explained.

“What Thabo does not know is that he is the overall winner of the competition. He thinks he is coming here to pick one of the weekly packages only to realize that he is the grand winner.”

Thabo Batshe, who had entered the competition when he was still at his grandmother’s place in Kimberley, had since moved to Johannesburg for work and is now living in the Randburg area. He was with his girlfriend when Clement Maosa revealed the surprise to him.

“I have been telling him that I actually want to go to Coachella,” the girlfriend explained.

“One thing that I am really looking forward to is experiencing a festival of this nature,” Batshe said in excitement. “And also going overseas and getting to travel.”

Thabo Batshe works in Marketing as a Communication Assistant and completed his Bachelor of Arts in Communication Sciences at the University of the Free State. This was followed by a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Strategic Communication at the University of Johannesburg. It will be his first time traveling outside of South Africa and he is currently applying for his passport which he will need to get a VISA in order to travel to California, in America.

The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival will be taking place between the 19th and 21st of April 2024.