Takalani Sesame is a Venda term meaning Be happy Sesame and is the South African version of the long-running Sesame St.
A feature of the show is that all eleven official South African languages are used: Afrikaans, English, Zulu, Xhosa, Swazi, Ndebele, Sesotho, Northern Sotho, Tsonga, Tswana and Venda.