Top 10 South African Reality TV Shows

WE all have a favourite TV programme that we set reminders for. Reality shows however give a more real feel to then without any staged scenes and acting. People mostly realty to these type of TV shows because they represent real life situations by real people whether it be a singing competition or a show that helps reconnect people with their loved ones. Here are the top 10 local reality shows to look out for.

1. Come Dine With Me SA

Come Dine With Me South Africa follows four strangers as they visit one another’s homes for dinner and attempt to outwit and impress fellow guests with their culinary and hospitality skills in a bid to win a cash prize and Pick n Pay vouchers.

2. Idols SA

The show is a contest to determine the best young singer in South Africa. Viewers have several hours following the broadcast of the show to vote by phone, SMS or online for their favourite contestant. On the following night’s episode, the contestant(s) with the fewest votes is sent home.

3. SA’s Got Talent

The SA’s Got Talent competition carries prize money of R250 000 to the eventual winner and features an array of amateur singers, dancers, musicians, magicians, contortionists, jugglers, ventriloquists, comedians and more showing off their special talents to the rest of the country.

4. Survivor SA

Survivor South Africa is based on the hugely successful American series of the same name. This gruelling series documents a group of average South Africans who are abandoned in the middle of some of the most treacherous places on earth, with little or no supplies provided to them. They have to build their own shelters, catch their own food, compete against each other on a daily basis, and create strategic relationships with one another under these harsh circumstances.

5. X factor South Africa

The long wait is nearly over as the worlds biggest and most successful singing competition, the X Factor, is just over a week away from being flighted on SABC1. On Saturday 6 September at 6pm, South Africa’s music royalty will take viewers on a journey to find the next big singing sensation.

6. Dineo’s Diary

Dineo’s Diary is a reality show that centred on Dineo Ranaka; she takes us through the highs and lows of her life as she pursues her dream of being a mogul. She also has to balance motherhood, her career and family.

7. Goal diggers

Goal Diggers will give viewers an exclusive glimpse into the off field lives of some of the most successful African footballers representing the continent on the global stage.
Viewers will get to see how they prepare their favourite meals to what designer’s label they prefer when going out. Footballers are known to be money spenders either in sport cars, big houses while others spend it on clubbing and women. Goal Diggers gives viewers a premium ticket into the lavish life of Africa’s finest soccer players.

8. Reality Check

Reality Check is an entertaining constructed reality series that documents the quest of 3 famous socialites who feel it’s time to give back and pay-it-forward. Their mission: to do fabulously good deeds as they know best in communities often forgotten. This series’ socialites are known for the high life and all the decadence that comes with it. Often misunderstood, these high maintenance divas are now at a reflective phase in their lives and careers. Bound by the controversies accompanied with fame and fortune, these three socialites have decided to prove to South Africa at there’s more to the glitz, glamour and twitter catfights by donning their new image as Mzansi’s Kasi Angels.

9. Take me out SA

A game show that begins with a group of 30 single women in search of finding the perfect match. Every week, the women are introduced to several bachelors one by one. Each woman stands at a lighted podium with a switch that controls her fate for a date: if she thinks it’s a match, she keeps her light on; if her attraction has been short-circuited, then it’s lights out and she waits for the next potential Mr. Right.

10. Khumbul’ekhaya

Khumbul’ekhaya is a heartwarming television series dubbed as the truth and reconciliation process of the soul. By facilitating reconciliation between estranged family members, Khumbul’ekhaya inspires viewers to reconcile and bring healing to their own families and remember the importance of “home”.

Mbali Radebe