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First Episode Of 'Culture Shock' Changed

Written by TVSA Team from the blog News on 14 Feb 2007
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M-Net Publicity previously issued information about the first episode of the new reality documentary series Culture Shock, but since then a decision was made to swap the first two episodes around.

The episode about the PE and Arniston families will now be screened as Episode 2. For more details about that episode (with a pic of the families), click here.

We assume you're up to speed on what Culture Shock is - if not click that link above to find out all about it.

The new premiere episode is entitled Soweto vs. "The Surburbs", and clearly the producers of the show felt this particular episode was more of a culture shock than the Arniston/PE one.

They were right. We'll get to see how life in Soweto contrasts with that of a typical white Jo'burg surburb, when the Oosthuizens from Brackendowns meet the Mabizelas from Pimville.

The Mabizelas are a family of five boys, orphaned 10 years ago, who live in the heart of bustling Soweto and who run the household by their own rules without a mother or father figure in their midst.


The Oosthuizens, on the other hand, are a typical nuclear family with mom, dad and three children, living an easy, relaxed life in Brackendowns.

For two weeks, the head of the Oosthuizen family, Jacques, and his 13-year-old son Calvin venture into the Mabizela home, while Lungi (the second-oldest of the Mabizela boys) and 18-year-old Nhlanhla (the youngest) leave their brothers behind and head out to meet their new family members in Brackendowns.

What follows is a serious shock of culture comfort zones as Lungi and Nhlanhla go 'lang-arm' dancing, learn to cope with the suburb's domestic dogs and find out how to clean a swimming pool.


In Soweto, Jacques and Calvin have to adapt to noisy late nights and figure out the foreign system of travelling by taxi. Calvin's first day of school is a challenge, since, as the rules of the game prescribe, contestants have to use their hosts' mode of transport.

Will Lungi and Nhlanhla survive the routine of suburban life? Will there be a struggle for power with the new father figure in the Soweto house? Can white men jump?

Culture Shock premieres on M-Net on Sunday 18 February, at 17h00.



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