''Scandal!'' is a South African

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produced by Ochre Moving Pictures and broadcast on

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. It is the most watched soap opera in South Africa, contending with

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's longest-running soapie '' Generations: The Legacy''. It is also broadcast across Africa on the eAfrica, e.tv Botswana and e.tv Ghana feeds. On 10 July 2024, e.tv announced that Scandal! will start airing daily occupying the 19:30 spot which was dubbed as the "Winter binge", and on the 7th of September, they announced that the winter binge was over.

Plot

''Scandal!'' is set at the fictional

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Nyathi Family Holdings (NFH) based in

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, which produces the newspaper ''The Voice'' and the gossip magazine, ''Scandal''. It follows the lives of the people and families working at NFH magazine as well as other characters in the show. It also tells the story of

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divides set in a local township of

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and the Johannesburg suburb Newtown, where NFH is based, while looking at the private desires of the high-classes and making ends meet of the lower-class.

Cast as per Opening Sequence

As shown on opening scene * Mapaseka Koetle *

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Makoma Mohale Makoma is a Congolese Christian musical group composed of members of the Makoma family. Originally from Kinshasa, the group was initially formed by six siblings—Nathalie, Annie, Pengani, Tutala, Duma, and Martin Makoma—alongside a non-family ...

* Kgaugelo James Sithole * Boikarabelo M. Mabuza * Kwenzo Ngcobo * Bongile Mantsai * Owen Sejake * Bongani Gumede

Main cast

Former cast

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Achievements

South Africa Film and Television Awards

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, Most Popular TV Soap/Telenovela , , , - , Best TV Soap , ,

References

External links

* * {{TVSA title, id=2726 South African drama television series E.tv original programming 2005 South African television series debuts