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New on SABC1in February, 2008:

The Best Of The Cypher
Premiere: Sunday, 3 February 2008 at 12h30

The Cypher is a youth talk show that uses the art form of Hip Hop to stimulate debate. The show provides youth with a platform to debate issues and ideas and guests must be willing to fight for what they believe in.

SABC1 brings together the best of episodes across the series in this compilation The Best Of The Cypher.


Rhythms From Africa

Rhythms From Africa continues with three more episodes in the series. The show features music from across the continent and looks at how each city has influenced the popular music of the place. Episodes are as follows:

Cape Town
Our Language, Our Music, Our City?
On: 5 Feb 2008 at 21h00

This film looks at the emergence of jazz and how it's brought Capetonians together to speak the same language.

Johannesburg
Gold, Tears and Music
On: 12 Feb 2008 at 21:00

Gold, Tears and Music traces the creation of Marabi through to Kwela and Mbaqanga and explores the lives of those who made the music.

Youth
Scratch, Mix and ?
On: 19 Feb 2008 at 21:00

Features Rap, Kwaito, Hip-Hop and traditional music from Zanzibar, Johannesburg and Cape Town to give a sense of where Africa's kids are at musically and the way forward. Edited like a music video, it allows young musicians to have their say.


Tshwaraganang
On: Thursday 7 Feb 2008 at 13h00

Tshwaraganang ("Unity" in Setswana) is a parenting show that reflects the diversities and issues facing South Africans today. It is people-centered; solutions-focused and research-based.

The show helps parents share their stories and find solutions to their situations, educating themselves and others on how to be better parents. It aims to inform, educate and shed light on the ever-changing world of parent/child relationships.

Tshwaragang assists parents in developing a world where children are exposed to a variety of media, a host of ideas and ideals, and the altered global consciousness of what a child's place and position in society really is.

Tshwaraganang is aimed directly at parents, teaching them about how children think and what they believe and understand about their own world while also giving these parents the best means to cope with the challenges of raising their children in today's society.

The educational talk platform provides information and shares experiences.


Big Up
Premiere date: 10 February 2008 at 10h30
Number of episodes: 13

Big Up is a youth lifestyle magazine series that celebrates young South Africans who are contributing their leisure time and disposable income to help their communities.

The show creates music videos featuring these young heroes who perform alongside a clean-living South African pop star.


Dance For All (Encounters)
On: Tuesday 26 February 2008 at 21h00


In 2002 former Cape Town principal ballet dancer, Phillip Boyd, and former Royal Ballet soloist and prima ballerina abssoluta, Phyllis Spira, formed a non-profit dance education centre called Dance for All.

Learning ballet techniques (from plié to dancing en pointe) without losing sight of African dance and beat, the school introduces commitment, discipline and a sense of purpose to the children in the township.

Based in Gugulethu, the school has grown into a dance company. They are about to give their inaugural performance at Artscape, which Boyd, Spira and the company’s dancers, Nqaba, Zandile, Theo, Noluyanda, Xola, hope shows that the company is capable of competing against the Cape Town Ballet.

This documentary explores the daily lives of the company’s members as they grand jeté towards new horizons.


Headwrap 3
Premiere date: Wednesday, 20 February 2008 at 18h30
Number of episodes: 26

Headwrap returns for a third season to look at bridging the gap between cultural divides in South Africa by answering questions like: what grooves happen when a Christian Rock Group from Fish Hoek collaborate with a Traditional African Gospel group from Khayelitsa?

What's the beat like when a 70-year old Namaqualand folk singer road trips with an all-girl Cape Town hip hop group?


All Of Us 4
Premiere date: Friday 29 February 2008 at 19h00
Number of episodes: 22

All Of Us returns for a fourth season and replaces Everybody Hates Chris.

Robert James (Duane Martin), an entertainment reporter for a local Los Angeles television station, is handsome, smart and modern in his thinking - as he should be, considering his romantic and parental entanglements.

Recently divorced from the somewhat self-absorbed Neesee (LisaRaye McCoy), the mother of their five-year-old son, Bobby Jr. (Khamani Griffin), he is madly in love with his fiancée, Tia (Elise Neal) - a funny, clever kindergarten teacher who helped him get over the demise of his first marriage.

Robert and Tia are of a new generation. They refuse to buy into the old stereotype that being divorced means you can't get along with the ex. so Robert does things differently as he works to maintain the peace, however uneasy, between his ex-wife and soon-to-be new bride.

Last season's cliffhanger left Tia wondering just how much Neesee she will be able to handle for the rest of her life. Providing friendship and varying degrees of support and advice to the couple is Dirk (Tony Rock) - Robert's best friend and producer who lives the Hollywood single life - and Tia's best friend and fellow teacher Jonelle (Terri J. Vaughn).


Stars Of Mzansi
On: 29 February at 20h30

Stars Of Mzansi is a new Awards ceremony created by SABC1 honouring entertainers who've made a mark on the entertainment industry in the past year. The awards ceremony will be broadcast live from the Pretoria State Theatre on SABC1.

More info on all the nominees and the behind-the-scenes scoop on the launch.

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