As of January 2026, our compilation of SABC 2’s top-rated series boasts over 20 unique shows. Highlighting SABC 2’s quality programming, Agter Elke Man and Ballade Vir 'n enkeling stand out, premiering in 1985 and 1987. SABC 2 has delivered an expansive roster of over 20 shows, dating from 1985 all the way to 2023.

Dikolong is a Sesotho drama depicting college life at Tshiya College of Education, Qwaqwa, Free State, South Africa. Morobi and Mokwepa are troublesome college veteran students bullying freshmen and getting some of them into serious trouble. Tshediso from KwaThema, Gauteng, is one of the victims of bullying and is being advised by Mosala, a wise and sensible leader from Mmamahabane. Their roommates are Sello, an intelligent technician, from Phiritona and Maloka, an informant who is married with two kids.

Orkney Snork Nie, a popular Afrikaans sitcom, originally broadcast by the SABC in South Africa. The name translates directly into Orkney Doesn't Snore, but the message being conveyed in Afrikaans is that the town isn't sleepy, there's always something happening.

Frikkadel Delport starts a take-away business when he is retrenched. In the process of finding his feet in his new venture, he appoints two staff members without really meaning to.

A South African Afrikaans series about broken families and the lies and deceit within them and how sins committed to do good can come back to haunt families when they least expect it.

Musiek Roulette is a South African music and variety game show produced by Stemmburg Television as a running mate for their long-running game show Noot vir Noot and hosted by the pop singer Nádine, in which pre-auditioned contestants answer questions based on medleys sung by guest artists, betting a pre-determined amount of money on the answers they give.

The series follows Marietjie Barnhoorn, the estranged wife of a successful businessman; Leana Steyn, the private secretary of an elderly business tycoon, who is ruthless in her ambitions to overcome her impoverished past; and aging ballerina Mercia Meyer, who returns to South Africa after living and working abroad and has to deal with the hostility of her fellow South Africans.

Noot vir Noot is an iconic South African musical game show produced by Stemmburg Television which features contestants who put their popular music expertise to the test by playing the show's musical games in a series of challenges.

7de Laan is an extraordinary microcosm where good and bad, evil and wholesome characters find themselves forming part of a wholesome community where no matter what – everyone counts and everyone cares…

With dreams of becoming Super League champions, a talented striker named Shakes and his football team take on rivals while going on global adventures.

When James runs into his old love's sister again after 10 years, they start building a friendship that later becomes more.

The G.A.T.T. Department, the Gauteng Department of Tenders and Tests, is managed by Frans Roos. His department was moved from the eleventh floor to the basement, the staff was reduced from 33 to 3 and he reports directly to Ms. Mammabolo, the chair woman of the council. The other staff consists of Lulu Roux, the receptionist, Koos Koekemoer, the senior technician, and Dickey Abrahams, junior technician. Koos' wife, Bessie, is a fine berry and she is often there to check on Koos. Poena Pieterse is supposed to be the department's messenger but is almost full-time busy with personal tasks for Me. Mammabolo.

Stokvel is a South African television sitcom set in the vibrant and exciting world of stokvels, where friends meet for companionship, good times and a social way of saving money.

SA's Got Talent (also known as South Africa's Got Talent or shorten to SAGT) is a South African television show that's part of the Got Talent series. Singers, dancers, comedians, variety acts, and other performers compete against each other for audience support. The winner of each season received R500,000 (R250,000 in Seasons 1 to 5).

Die Sentrum (The Centre) is a South African telenovela which revolves around a group of eight diverse counsellors who work together at a helpline call centre.

Deal or No Deal is a South African version of the international television game show created by John de Mol for Endemol Netherlands in which the core idea in all countries is the same: one contestant in a high thrills face-off with mystery suitcases. This is the second South African version of the show - the first aired for two seasons on M-Net, from 2007-2008.

Ballade Vir 'n Enkeling (Ballad for a Loner) is an Afrikaans language drama set in 1985 that centres around the search by a young journalist for her colleague and fellow journalist Jacques Rynhard following his sudden, mysterious disappearance. As the story begins Jacques has just been awarded the Basson Prize for his novel Die Enkeling, but he disappears before the announcement is made. Otto Beukes, the editor of the magazine Die Huisvriend, decides to follow up on the story and puts top journalist Carina Human on the story. In a quest to find out where Jacques has gone and why he's disappeared Human begins the search for him by locating to the people closest to him.

Torings (Towers) is a South African period drama television series created by Paul C. Venter as a sequel to his series Konings which continues to tell the story of the fierce and often bloody struggle between the Groenewald and Roodt families for control of the Superspaar company, placed in the context of the larger political post-Apartheid struggle in South Africa. The Konings/Torings saga is the story of the fierce and often bloody struggle between Dolf Groenewald (Dawid Minnaar) and Herman Roodt (Albert Maritz) for control of the Superspaar company, placed in the context of the larger political post-Apartheid struggle in South Africa. The eternal feud between the Groenewalds and Roodts becomes fiercer as Dolf recovers from his stroke and from the beginning is a threat for the Roodts

Zero Tolerance is a South African police procedural television series which follows the adventures of an elite crime-fighting police unit similar to the Scorpions.

A struggling tabloid finds new direction when a crime reporter takes the helm and pivots writers back to bold investigative journalism.

After experiencing an unspeakable tragedy, a young suburban couples move to the small coastal town of Swartwater. They soon become embroiled with the local population and their intrigues and realize that all is not as it seems.