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Binneland
''Binnelanders'' (previously ''Binneland'' and ''Binneland Sub Judice'') is a South African Afrikaans soap opera. It is set in and around the fictional private hospital, Binneland Kliniek, in Pretoria, and the storyline follows the trials, trauma and tribulations of the staff and patients of the hospital. The series is produced by Friedrich and Elsje Stark of Stark Productions. ''Binnelanders'' is currently airing season 16. Production history ''Binnelanders'' began as a weekly one-hour drama, the first episode of which was broadcast only in Afrikaans on 13 October 2005 on both M-Net and kykNET. Halfway through the show's second season, it became a daily half-hour soap opera, and English subtitles were introduced. It was broadcast directly after Egoli on M-Net in the 18:30 time slot. Programming shifted to the 18:00 timeslot in preparation for the conclusion of Egoli, after which Binnelanders would extend over a one-hour period, consuming both time slots. The title of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Kruger
Ben Kruger (25 March 1957 – 26 May 2021) was a South African actor and author, best known for his roles in the popular serials ''Snake Island'', ''Binnelanders'' and ''Zero Tolerance''. Personal life He was born on 25 March 1957 in Bothaville, South Africa. His father was a pastor in the local AGS congregation. His mother was from Bloemfontein. At the age of two, he moved to Cape Town with his family. Then at the age of four, he moved to Johannesburg where he completed his schooling at Helpmekaar Boys' High School. After school, Kruger served in the South African Navy for 18 months, as he was conscripted for national service, after which he obtained his BA (Drama) at the University of Pretoria. On 26 May 2021, Kruger died at his home in Brooklyn, Pretoria at the age of 64, as a result of COVID-19 complications. Career Helped by his drama teacher, Kruger began his acting career by performing in the theater, as well as in radio plays and advertisements. Notable stage perfo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Strydom (actor)
Johannes 'Hans' Strydom (born 14 May 1947) is a South African actor and writer. Considered as a legend in South African television, Strydom is best known for his roles in the popular serials ''Generations'', ''Binnelanders'' and the film ''The Gods Must Be Crazy II''. He was the first South African to be on television. Personal life He was born on 14 May 1947 in Durban, South Africa. He had his education from North-West University. Career He graduated with a degree in law at Potchefstroom University. Then in 1964, he began working at the Department of Justice in Durban's Magistrate's Court. In 1972, he became a public prosecutor in Ladysmith. Between 1972 and 1976, he was a magistrate at the head office of the Department of Justice. In 1976, he quit his job to pursue a professional career as an actor. He later became one of the two persons to welcome South Africans on TV in January 1976 during the country's first national broadcasts along with David Hall-Green. Then he appea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hykie Berg
Hykie Berg (born 2 May 1978), is a South African actor. He is best known for the role of 'Darius du Buisson' in the television serial '' Egoli: Place of Gold'' and role 'Conrad Bester' in the soap opera, ''Binnelanders''. In 2011, he won the fourth season of the reality competition ''Survivor South Africa''. Personal life He was born on 2 May 1978 in Pretoria, South Africa. He studied up to grade 8 at Hoërskool Die Wilgers where he started using drugs. Then he matriculated in 1998. At the age of 19, he became a heroin addict. He then received drug rehabilitation within a maximum-security cell at the Weskoppies Psychiatric Hospital, Pretoria. From 1997 and 1999, he completed a Bachelor of Commerce in Marketing – Second Year, Marketing/Marketing Management General degree at University of Pretoria. Then he graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Dramatic Arts in Arts, Entertainment, and Media Management from Stellenbosch University Stellenbosch University ( af, Universiteit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cindy Swanepoel
Cindy Swanepoel (born 15 December 1981) is a South African actress. She is best known for her roles in the popular serials '' Generations'', ''Binnelanders'' and '' Egoli: Place of Gold''. Personal life She was born on 15 December 1981 in Krugersdorp, Transvaal, South Africa and raised in Pretoria. During her high school years, she lived in Cape Town and matriculated at Durbanville High School. In 2003 she obtained her BA Drama honors degree from the University of Stellenbosch. Career She made her acting debut as a professional actress in the theater production, ''Circles in a Forest'' directed by Marinda Engelbrecht. The show was performed at the Artscape Theater in Cape Town. In 2004, the production was performed at the Klein Karoo National Arts Festival as well. In 2005, she moved from Cape Town to Johannesburg and made her television debut in the television series, '' Egoli: Place of Gold''. In the play, she played the role of 'July'. After the success of the play, she perfo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
M-Net
M-Net (an abbreviation of Electronic Media Network) is a South African pay television channel established by Naspers in 1986. The channel broadcasts both local and international programming, including general entertainment, children's series, sport and movies. While the TV signal is generally encrypted, M-Net showed some programmes 'free to air' in its "Open Time" slot between 5 p.m. and 7 pm, until the slot closed on 1 April 2007. In the early 1990s, M-Net added a second analogue channel called Community Services Network (CSN),''Mass Media, Towards the Millennium: The South African Handbook of Mass Communication'' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clint Brink
Clint Brink (born 29 September 1980) is a South African actor. He is best known for his roles in the films ''King Dog'', ''Ellen: Die storie van Ellen Pakkies'' and ''Lockdown Heights'' as well as the soap opera ''Binnelanders''. Early Brink was born in Paarl, Cape Province (now Western Cape The Western Cape is a province of South Africa, situated on the south-western coast of the country. It is the fourth largest of the nine provinces with an area of , and the third most populous, with an estimated 7 million inhabitants in 2020 ...). He attended New Orleans High School. He went on to graduate with a Bachelor of Arts in Film and Television from CityVarsity School of Media and Creative Arts in 1999. Career During his studies, Brink worked on several short films. At the age of 19 after graduation, he auditioned for the film ''Gangsters and dancers''. Unfortunately, the film was cancelled before its production. However, he landed the role of Shaun Jacobs in the television ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soap Opera
A soap opera, or ''soap'' for short, is a typically long-running radio or television serial, frequently characterized by melodrama, ensemble casts, and sentimentality. The term "soap opera" originated from radio dramas originally being sponsored by soap manufacturers.Bowles, p. 118. The term was preceded by "horse opera", a derogatory term for low-budget Westerns. BBC Radio's ''The Archers'', first broadcast in 1950, is the world's longest-running radio soap opera. The longest-running current television soap is '' Coronation Street'', which was first broadcast on ITV in 1960, with the record for the longest running soap opera in history being held by '' Guiding Light'', which began on radio in 1937, transitioned to television in 1952, and ended in 2009. A crucial element that defines the soap opera is the open-ended serial nature of the narrative, with stories spanning several episodes. One of the defining features that makes a television program a soap opera, according to Alber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South African Television Soap Operas
South is one of the cardinal directions or compass points. The direction is the opposite of north and is perpendicular to both east and west. Etymology The word ''south'' comes from Old English ''sūþ'', from earlier Proto-Germanic ''*sunþaz'' ("south"), possibly related to the same Proto-Indo-European root that the word ''sun'' derived from. Some languages describe south in the same way, from the fact that it is the direction of the sun at noon (in the Northern Hemisphere), like Latin meridies 'noon, south' (from medius 'middle' + dies 'day', cf English meridional), while others describe south as the right-hand side of the rising sun, like Biblical Hebrew תֵּימָן teiman 'south' from יָמִין yamin 'right', Aramaic תַּימנַא taymna from יָמִין yamin 'right' and Syriac ܬܰܝܡܢܳܐ taymna from ܝܰܡܝܺܢܳܐ yamina (hence the name of Yemen, the land to the south/right of the Levant). Navigation By convention, the ''bottom or down-facing side'' of a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Medical Television Series
A medical drama is a television show or film in which events center upon a hospital, an ambulance staff, or any medical environment. Most recent medical dramatic programming go beyond the events pertaining to the characters' jobs and portray some aspects of their personal lives. A typical medical drama might have a storyline in which two doctors fall in love. Communications theorist Marshall McLuhan, in his 1964 work on the nature of media, predicted success for this particular genre on TV because the medium "creates an obsession with bodily welfare". The longest running medical drama in the world is the British series ''Casualty'', airing since 1986, and the longest running medical soap opera is General Hospital running since 1963. History '' City Hospital'', which first aired in 1951, is usually considered to be the first televised medical drama. (The first serialized medical drama was probably the ''Dr. Kildare'' film series (1937-1947), starring a number of actors in the e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mass Media In Pretoria
Mass is an intrinsic property of a body. It was traditionally believed to be related to the quantity of matter in a physical body, until the discovery of the atom and particle physics. It was found that different atoms and different elementary particles, theoretically with the same amount of matter, have nonetheless different masses. Mass in modern physics has multiple definitions which are conceptually distinct, but physically equivalent. Mass can be experimentally defined as a measure of the body's inertia, meaning the resistance to acceleration (change of velocity) when a net force is applied. The object's mass also determines the strength of its gravitational attraction to other bodies. The SI base unit of mass is the kilogram (kg). In physics, mass is not the same as weight, even though mass is often determined by measuring the object's weight using a spring scale, rather than balance scale comparing it directly with known masses. An object on the Moon would weigh le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2005 South African Television Series Debuts
5 (five) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number, and cardinal number, following 4 and preceding 6, and is a prime number. It has attained significance throughout history in part because typical humans have five digits on each hand. In mathematics 5 is the third smallest prime number, and the second super-prime. It is the first safe prime, the first good prime, the first balanced prime, and the first of three known Wilson primes. Five is the second Fermat prime and the third Mersenne prime exponent, as well as the third Catalan number, and the third Sophie Germain prime. Notably, 5 is equal to the sum of the ''only'' consecutive primes, 2 + 3, and is the only number that is part of more than one pair of twin primes, ( 3, 5) and (5, 7). It is also a sexy prime with the fifth prime number and first prime repunit, 11. Five is the third factorial prime, an alternating factorial, and an Eisenstein prime with no imaginary part and real part of the form ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
