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Monday 1 March 2010Episode 300 There's a buzz at the college as the girls prepare for their radio show and interview with kwaito superstar Thebe. During the interview they tackle Thebe on his explicit lyrics.
The interview is too hot for Ipeleng who immediately asks Katlego to be in charge of the radio station. The show is a huge success sparking off jealousy among the guys. Shawn, Tendai and Vusi agree to come up with something better.
After giving Tendai a fright by being late, Thebe gives a super performance at Duke's. Meanwhile Irene is excited about the letter Tendai "wrote". Tendai starts to get jealous of Irene's "secret admirer".
Tuesday 2 March 2010Episode 301 Tendai and Jason get beaten up when AK and Bulldog arrive at the club to collect the briefcase. Duke arrives, saving them from disaster. They deny having the briefcase.
Tendai later decides to hand over the briefcase to the police anonymously. Irene decides to tell Tendai how she feels about him, then discovers her love letter is lost.
Nomonde and Charmaine debate whether Stephanie's eating disorder has returned.
Wednesday 3 March 2010Episode 302 Stephanie is exhausted and not coping at work. Nor are Jason and Tendai - once Tendai has revealed that the briefcase has gone missing. Rudi overhears Tendai and Jason talking about the missing money and becomes defiant, afraid they are endangering Nomonde.
Charmaine and Vusi make up after their tensions in dance class. AK gives Ipeleng tickets for Brenda Fassie, yet he steers clear of Katlego herself. AK also uses the opportunity to extract information about Tendai from Ipeleng.
Thursday 4 March 2010Episode 303 Jason is driving Tendai crazy. Insisting on going to look for the briefcase himself - Tendai snaps. He's already looked everywhere. AK meets up with Nick and Nick assures him he's got an in at Duke's. The door has been opened for their merchandise …
Friday 5 March 2010Episode 304 Stephanie raves on the dance floor with Nick, who has popped half an Ecstasy tablet into her mouth. She's having the time of her life, which angers Shawn. It also angers Duke who, unaware that she has taken a pill, tells her to go home.
The briefcase issue finally comes to a head. AK confronts Duke, demanding it back. Duke is in a dilemma. There's no way he intends giving AK back his money. But he also has no intention of handing into the police if it will find its way back to AK. He ultimately comes up with a catastrophic solution.
Monday 8 March 2010Episode 305 The money has burned to ashes. AK is beside himself. Next day the breakfast show goes well for the girls. Vusi however feels he is being marginalised.
Vusi's day gets worse when he and Charmaine have a fight, causing him to pullout of the Latin dance competition. Shawn agrees to partner Charmaine.
Determined to get revenge, AK sets Duke up with a hooker named Sandy. Nomonde arrives at the office to find Duke in a compromising position.
Tuesday 9 March 2010Episode 306 Nomonde is not impressed with Duke's behaviour with Sandy. Duke finds out that AK set him up and all Hell breaks loose. Vusi gives Katlego a hard time for sending the thank you letter to AK. Irene is upset that Tendai did not write the letter.
Wednesday 10 March 2010Episode 307 Ipeleng is surprised to hear about Duke. She is convinced that both AK and Duke are gentlemen. Tendai definitely wants revenge on the girls. The girls suspect that something is up whilst broadcasting Juice.
Ipeleng is not impressed by the Juice boys vs. girls fiasco. The boys are pleased with their performance. AK goes to visit Katlego and the passion returns.
Thursday 11 March 2010Episode 308 Katlego is not convinced that she is doing the right thing. Peter has been offered a place with the Jhb dance troupe. Stephanie is not coping with college and her job and is convince that the ecstasy pills will help her cope. Katlego is very secretive about AK.
Friday 12 March 2010Episode 309 Ipeleng offers Tendai the job of station manager. Tendai tells the girls that they can keep the breakfast show on his terms. The girls decide to go on strike much to Tendai's delight.
All seems well with Katlego and AK. Vusi arranges for BVK to rap live on the radio show. Shawn sprains his ankle just before the dance comp commences and Vusi has to step in.
Monday 15 March 2010Episode 310 Charmaine and Vusi come 2nd much to Hernandez's disappointment. Steph goes partying all night. Charmaine rings up the radio station to win a CD but the boys decide to cut her off. The girls really want war now. Mr. Fat is impressed with Nomonde and dedicates a song to her at Duke's.
Tuesday 16 March 2010Episode 311 AK knows that Vusi is not happy with him seeing Katlego. Steph decides to give Juice a miss.Vusi suspects that Irene switched his alarm off. Katlego tells Vusi she is seeing someone else. AK is playing Mr. Nice guy. Nomonde accidentally takes one of Steph's ecstasy tablets, thinking that it is a headache pill.
Wednesday 17 March 2010Episode 312Nomonde is tripping on ecstasy and Stephanie and Charmaine don't know what to do. Eventually they have to tell her. Nomonde is upset, then happy again, then she starts feeling weird …
The girls have to do Juice without Nomonde, who couldn't sleep the night before. There's a stand-off between the girls and Tendai over the content of Juice. Stephanie feels hideous about the mistake, apologises to Nomonde and flushes the rest of the tablets down the sink.
Duke spills the beans about AK's drug activities to Bra Gibbs. Bra Gibbs vows to mete out severe punishment. Tendai battles to hold things together when the club faces several small crises. Katlego's lie takes on a life of its own when Irene talks to her about "the new man in her life" and when Vusi tells AK about the new man.
A furious AK confronts Katlego about the new man in her life. It looks like Katlego must face another beating.
Thursday 18 March 2010Episode 313 Katlego tells AK about the lie and he calms down. He is terribly uneasy about something and Katlego, sensing this, is shattered when he says goodbye and leaves for Jo'burg.
Jason and Stephanie plot to get Tendai to call in on Juice and win a date with Irene. Shawn confronts Stephanie about the drugs and they have a terrible fight. Shawn decides to leave her alone for good.
The girls have found out that Tendai has not told Duke about his radio job and Nomonde blackmails Tendai to get him to keep his hands off her show. Katlego confronts Vusi about telling Irene about her secret man. Zandi, a mysterious and beautiful new face in the bar, puts in her first appearance.
She wins over the boys and girls alike and claims to know Nomonde from Primary School. Nomonde doesn't have a clue who Zandi is, but likes her very much.Shawn and Charmaine go out on a date and Stephanie is floored.
Friday 19 March 2010Episode 314 Charmaine and Shawn slow dance, much to Stpeh's distress. Charmaine does not know how to respond to Shawn's advances. Tendai is asking Jason to cover for him more and more, causing Duke to suspect something. Zandi flirts with Tendai who is quite taken by her.
Monday 22 March 2010Episode 315 The guys launch the Jam - the new afternoon radio show on BackStage FM. Things go well and a good time is had at Duke's.
Katlego spends the day trying to get hold of AK. She has no idea that he is lying in a pool of blood in Jhb. Tendai is struggling, trying to spread himself between Duke's and the radio station.
Duke comes close to finding out but Tendai manages to keep things secret for another day. Shawn has strong words with Stephanie for accusing Charmaine of being after him. Stephanie is devastated.
Tuesday 23 March 2010Episode 316 Shawn and Charmaine are on cloud nine. This is the victory they were dreaming of. Mrs Jacobs is flying high with happiness. Charmaine and Shawn are her dream couple. Stephanie is struggling to cope with this. Stephanie flees. Nick finds her and pops a potent question: does Stephanie want to deal for him?
Katlego's getting very worried about AK. She decides to go and see Duke. Duke is shocked that AK and Katlego are back together again and his guilt about delivering AK to his father is killing him. He assures Katlego that he will try and find AK.
He starts phoning - but it's too late.
Wednesday 24 March 2010Episode 317 Charmaine seems to be giving Shawn the brush off. Tendai nearly gets bust when Duke listens into "The Jam". He manages to smooth talk his way out of trouble. Steph returns from her night of drugging and partying.
Zandile gets the tour of the college by Nomonde. Irene is not impressed by her as she makes a play for Tendai. Zandile agrees to sing at Dukes and is a big hit. Katlego is desperate to find out where AK is.
Thursday 25 March 2010Episode 318 Irene's plan to embarrass Zandi by asking her to sing backfires. Not only does she have a beautiful voice but the audience loves her.
Nomonde informs her that the reason for Irene's animosity is jealousy because Tendai thinks Zandi is 'hot'. Zandi cleverly turns things around and befriends Irene, then seals their relationship by publicly being rude to Tendai and giving him an ice-cold shoulder.
Stephanie's Ecstasy feature goes very wrong when she antagonises listeners with her one-sided approach to the subject. She verbally abuses people that phone in, forcing Irene and Charmaine to withdraw from being a part of it.
Ipeleng freaks out and Tendai is forced to remove Stephanie from the show until further notice. Meanwhile, fortunately for AK, things are taking a turn for the better. He's been allowed to live.
Friday 26 March 2010Episode 319 Tendai is not having things his way. Zandi has just embarrassed him in front of everybody. Jason calls him whilst he is in studio and tells him that Duke is going to see Ipeleng about his moonlighting. He has to force Vusi and Shawn to cover for him.
Meanwhile Charmaine and Stephanie continue to plan Irene's date. Charmaine is becoming increaiisngly uncomfortable working with Stephanie because of her feelings for Shawn.
Stephanie is increasingly getting jealous of Charmaine and feeling depressed because of the drugs. As for Shawn, firstly he denies to Stephanie that there's something going on between him and Charmaine but on the side his mother steps up her efforts to get him and Charmaine together.
AK calls Nick for a report back on their drugs network. AK gets furious when Nick tells him he's having problems with Stephanie.
Monday 29 March 2010Episode 320 Duke finally busts Tendai for moonlighting at the radio station. To Tendai's surprise, Duke gives him permission to carry on. Stephanie is upset at Shawn's erratic attitude. She asks Charmaine to find out why.
Katlego spends the day waiting for AK to call. He arrives late that evening and she is horrified to see his condition.
Tuesday 30 March 2010Episode 321 Katlego and AK are happy to be re-united. Nick offers to help Jason out with Steph . Ipeleng finds out that the new man is really AK. Irene invites Zandi over for dinner, Zandi is pleased as she is scheming to get into the college, however Ipeleng has a board meeting. Shawn and Charmaine kiss. Ipeleng is not happy that Katlego has agreed to audition Zandi.
Wednesday 31 March 2010Episode 322 Stephanie and Nick are regular party companions. Steph is defensive about her late nights out.
Nomonde and Jason are convinced that Nick is up to no good. Charmaine and Shawn are dying to find time alone but they do not want to get caught. Charmaine does not want another scandal like the one she had with Tendai. Shawn agrees to tell Stephanie.
Zandi is upset when she hears Ipeleng will not grant her an audition. Irene comes to Zandi's aid letting her know which improv exercise that Ipeleng is preparing for the audition. Duke books Zola and Tendai is annoyed
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