Bafana who? It’s Banyana that’s on everyone’s lips! The South Africa national women’s football team, nicknamed Banyana Banyana, is the hottest team on the block these days.
Sisters are doing it for themselves, now more than ever, in the sports arena.
Check out SABC1’s celebration of women in sport, Sheroes In Sport, at 9 pm on SABC1.
It’s a four-part series featuring four of the most celebrated SA female sports stars, starring netball stalwart Hazel Gumede, football administrator Natasha Tshiclas, professional sprinter Geraldine Pillay, and former women’s Bok captain Nomsebenzi Tsotsobe.
Get real on e.tv at 10 pm with Shuga: Down South set in the cool clubs, hangouts and schools of Johannesburg’s Braamfontein township, as tricky themes of abusive relationships, sexual assault, back-alley abortions and “blessers”, as well as HIV are tackled.
At 11 pm on e.tv, it’s time for a repeat of Spectre the 24th instalment of the James Bond film series with blondie Daniel Craig as 007.
And in Botho Act Of Kindness, SABC2 at 10 pm, you can get a feel-good emotional story about South Africans saying the magical words, “thank you” to someone who has impacted their lives in a positive way.