Diamond City
Diamond City
Channel: SABC1
TX Time: 20h00
Genre: Drama
Prison drama which revolves around Zandile (Noxee Maqashalala), South Africa's most prolific female public prosecutor. She is a star, an inspiration and a proud, no-nonsense law enforcer who is rising up the ranks of the legal profession at light speed.
There's no knowing how high she'll go - until the day she is arrested for murder. Zandile goes from an officer of the law to a criminal.
Now Zandile finds herself arriving at the gates of the very prison where she has been sending the guilty to. And one question keeps going through her mind, over and over again: How did this happen? She is innocent... yet here she is.
TVSA Show Page: Diamond City
Someone to Blame: The Ahmed Timol Inquest
Channel: SABC3
TX Time: 19h30
Genre: Documentary, History
Covers the 2017 inquest into the death of Ahmed Timol, the 29-year-old Roodepoort school teacher and political activist who was said to have committed suicide by jumping out of the 10th floor of the former John Vorster Square Police Station on 27 October, 1971.
The original inquest in 1972 returned a verdict that there was no living person responsible for his death, despite overwhelming evidence of gruesome torture. Loved ones did not believe Timol had jumped: they believed he was either tortured to death and then thrown from the window, or pushed.
Imtiaz Ahmed Cajee, Ahmed Timol's nephew, made it his personal quest to find those responsible for his beloved uncle's death.
The Wedding Bashers 2
Channel: M-Net (DStv 101)
TX Time: 18h00
Genre: Reality Competition
The dress should be to die for, the food should be world class, the décor divine and the entertainment a blast, but what happens when South Africans of all backgrounds, cultures and religions open up their special days to The Wedding Bashers?
The series turns a microscope onto unique weddings through a celebrity team of "experts" in various fields. Season 2 of the series returns with a cast that looks slightly different: two new "Bashers" with fresh perspectives join the fray as the team continues their search for the perfect South African wedding.
Season 2 welcome the return of wedding planner extraordinaire Zavion Kotze, and party professional Denise Zimba. They are joined this year by brand new "Bashers" Zola Nene - South African celebrity chef and author - and former Miss South Africa Bernelee Daniell.
TVSA Show Page: The Wedding Bashers 2
Unforgotten 3
Channel: BBC First (DStv 119)
TX Time: 21h00
Genre: Drama
Nicola Walker (Last Tango In Halifax) and Sanjeev Bhaskar (The Kumars at No. 42) reprise their roles as DCI Cassie Stuart and DI Sunil 'Sunny' Khan as they investigate another emotionally-charged cold case.
This season the pair investigate the story of a close-knit group of old school friends that have stood by one another through thick and thin.
However, when the body of a teenage girl who went missing at the turn of the millennium is found at a building site off the M1 motorway, the four men are placed under the spotlight and their relationships are tested to the limit.
Above and Beyond: NASA's Journey to Tomorrow
Above and Beyond: NASA's Journey to Tomorrow
Channel: Discovery Channel (DStv 121)
TX Time: 20h00
Genre: Documentary
Space travel is by far the most extraordinary achievement by mankind throughout history, and amongst the most remarkable discoveries of all time.
In the quest to understand where we came from, where we're going and where we stand in the universe, no organisation represents this human curiosity more than NASA.
As part of their 60th anniversary, this documentary shines a light on the historic institution that went to the moon, the surface of Mars, and to the outer edge of our solar system.