My Naam is Farah
Channel: kykNET & kie (DStv 145)
TX Time: 20h00
Genre: Telenovela, Afrikaans
Farah Ersadi is a 28-year-old Iranian doctor who works illegally as a cleaner in Istanbul.
She is the mother of a six-year-old son, Kerimsah, who suffers from an autoimmune disease, leaving him with no immunity against illnesses.
The medical care he needs is extremely expensive, and despite her qualifications, Farah cannot practice as a doctor in Turkey.
She works as a cleaner to scratch together enough money for his medical treatment.
Farah's world is turned upside down when she witnesses a murder committed by the local mafia.
The mafia boss orders Tahir Lekesiz to kill her, but will he be able to carry out the order?
Where do his loyalties lie: with the mafia boss who saved his life when he was a child, or with the beautiful doctor and her son?
The original Turkish title of the show is Adim Farah - an adaptation of the Argentine series La chica que limpia, which also has an American version, The Cleaning Lady.
Mandi du Plooy-Baard is the Afrikaans voice for Farah and the voice of Tahir is provided by Reynard Slabbert.
Mafia boss Mehmet Kosaner is voiced by Charl van Heyningen.
Other characters in the telenovela and their Afrikaans voices are:
Perihan (Karin Retief),
Kaan (Markus Haywood),
Kerimsah (Juwan van der Westhuizen),
Gönül (Carmen Pretorius),
Ilyas (Pierre-Thomas Retief),
Orhan (Mortimer Williams) and
Bade (Mari Molefe van Heerden).
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American Godfathers: The Five Families
Channel: HISTORY (DStv 186)
TX Time: 19h25
Genre: Documentary Series
Executive produced and narrated by Michael Imperioli (The Sopranos), this six-hour docuseries explores the inception, rise and fall of New York City's five Mafia families who - over a 50-plus-year period - had a hand in every facet of organised crime in America, from bootlegging and drug trafficking to extortion and gambling.
Based upon Selwyn Raab's New York Times best-seller Five Families: The Rise, Decline and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires, the series traces the extensive history of the Mafia beginning with its early ties to Sicily.
In 1931, Charles "Lucky" Luciano, a Sicilian-born gangster, created The Commission which acted as the governing body for the American Mafia and appointed the original "New York Five" - the Bonanno, Gagliano, Luciano, Mangano and Profaci families.
They lived by an honour code or set of rules; the most important was omertá meaning "silence."
For a generation, omertá, the key to the Mafia's success, kept the families safe from law enforcement and public view as they made millions through wartime, depression and changes in legislation to seamlessly move from one racket to the next.
Over time, the uniquely American values of greed and celebrity, coupled with the relentless pursuit by federal law enforcement, proved too great a match.
Events chronicled throughout each two-hour episode include:
- the heyday of Lucky Luciano,
- the 1963 Valachi hearings and the brutal and public slayings of Albert Anastasia, Joey "Crazy Joe" Gallo, Paul Castellano and Carmine Galante, to name a few,
- the media storm that ensued when Joseph "Big Joey" Massino flipped on his own family in 2005,
- the history and subsequent breakdown of the code, coupled with the ever-changing violent power struggles within each of the five families.
Through investigative archival images, footage, audio recordings and recreation as well as new, candid on-camera interviews with authors including Raab himself, historians, experts, law enforcement, witnesses and former mafia affiliates, you will get an inside look at the inner workings of the most powerful criminal organisation of the twentieth century.
Lightened Up
Channel: The Home Channel (DStv 176 / Openview 113)
TX Time: 18h30
Genre: Food
What if you could "lighten up" your favourite cheat meals without sabotaging flavour?
In this series, Erwan Heussaff shows us how to make healthy versions of commonly unhealthy dishes.
In the series premiere, "Filipino Fare": Erwan tackles some Filipino dishes and makes even the most unhealthy a little better for you.
Claimed and Shamed
Channel: CBS Reality (DStv 132 / StarSat 170)
TX Time: 13h10
Genre: Reality, Hidden Camera
Documentary series that casts a covert eye over the ever-growing problem of insurance fraud, and sees outlandish claimers as they're caught out on camera.
Presented by Naga Munchetty and Ore Oduba, the series highlights the extraordinary and often ridiculous lengths some people go to in order to try and receive a bumper insurance payout.
Follow the Met Police and the Insurance Fraud Enforcement Department on a number of early morning raids, as they convict suspected insurance fraudsters.
In the series premiere: One man fakes his own personal injury claim using a nail gun, a would-be whiplash fraudster is caught out on bus CCTV, and a newly-formed police unit, IFED, raid a suspected fraudulent accident management company.
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