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Intersexions

Genres: Drama
Broadcast on: SABC1, Netflix South Africa

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Seasons

Season 1

Channel Premiere Finale TX Time Episodes
SABC1 12 Oct 2010 05 Apr 2011 Tuesdays, 20h30 - 21h00 26
Netflix South Africa 05 May 2020 05 May 2020 Tuesday, 10h00 (all episodes) 26


Season 1

Intersexions is a South African television drama series produced by Quizzical Pictures in partnership with Johns Hopkins Health and Education in South Africa (JHHESA) and SABC Education, featuring independent but interrelated stand-alone episodes that follow the AIDS infection chain.

Although Intersexions does not present itself as an overtly HIV/AIDS drama series, it looks at the lives and loves of those infected and affected by the HIV virus as well as the circumstances of their contracting the virus and the relationships in their lives.

The series tells 25 inter-connected but independent stories that start and end with Episode 1 bringing the series-arc full-circle.

The series starts with a wedding in a well-to-do suburb North of Johannesburg. The wife, Mandisa, dressing for her wedding, hears on the radio that a well-known DJ is dying of an AIDS-related illness.

She freezes. The DJ had been her lover five years before. With this story, we begin our journey through the chain of transmission of the HIV virus.

Episode 2 is the story of Mandisa and the DJ five years before. Episode 3 is the story of the DJ and his other lover Boitumelo. Episode 4 tells the story of Boitumelo and Thami. And so on.

Each episode takes us closer and closer to understanding the interconnectedness of our sexual networks. We begin our story thinking that Mandisa, the wife, has infected her husband. But by the end of the series, we see how everyone is part of a complex network of transmission.

The virus has traveled full circle. The virus has touched all of their lives and consequently ours too. Because of the prevalence of multiple and concurrent partnerships, we all find ourselves somewhere along the line in a linked chain of potential infection.

Episode 26 breaks form and reveals, quite explicitly in a documentary format, the network we have been exploring throughout the series.

Told with a mixture of live-action and animation, as well as referring to the characters we have met, it starts by taking us back to the wedding we encountered at the beginning of the series.

It carefully shows who is related to whom – not only by blood, but through the virus. It then pulls out – as if looking through the eyes of God, and takes a wider and wider picture of the sexual network in the society.

Intersexions takes 25 "bites" out of the lives of ordinary people in South Africa and zooms in on a small narrative in their lives. Sometimes the stories explore the relationship which infected them. Sometimes the virus hits a dead-end.

Intersexions traces the movement of the virus as though it were a person, alive, fluid and able to move between and through different worlds.

The full spectrum of worlds and characters in the series allows us to reflect the broad range of African and spoken languages in South Africa and cuts through class, race and age barriers.

The first season of Intersexions received 23 nominations at the sixth annual South African Film and Television Awards (SAFTAs). It won 11 awards, including Best TV Drama Series.

Intersexions is a collaborative partnership between SABC1, SABC Education and Johns Hopkins Health and Education in SA (JHHESA). It is produced by Quizzical Pictures and AntS Multimedia with research undertaken by CADRE.

Intersexions was created and executive produced by uZanenkosi. The executive producers for Curious Pictures were Harriet Gavshon and Mariki van der Walt, with producer Karima Effendi. The head writer was Brent Quinn and the music composition and score was by Su Lubner.


Season 1 Cast

as
Mandisa

as
Kabelo

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DJ Mo Freek

as
Tshepo (as Thato Molamo)

as
Dalitso

as
Mr Molete

as
Charlie (as Wandile Molebatse)

as
Jabu

as
Sarah (as Jo-Anne Galloway)

as
Shaan

as
Jake

as
Ruth (as Bonnie Bouman)

as
Virginia

as
Masabatha

as
Duma

as
Zamo

as
Ntando

as
Vukani (as Mxolisi Majozi)

as
Buhle

as
George

as
Lindi

as
Tshepo

as
Boitumelo's Mother (as Sipati Motswana)

as
Mbali

as
Thandeka (as Phumeza Dlwati)

as
Tizozo

as
Tsholofelo

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Guest Star

as
Mhinga

as
Cherise

as
Mrs Grootboom

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Shorty

as
Preacher

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Palesa

as
Isaac

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Hotel Manager (as Iain Winter Smith)

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Farouk

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Court Appointed Lawyer

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Magistrate

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Warden Selwyn

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Thami's Mother

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Headmistress

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Consultant

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Michelle

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Aahna

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Mpho

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Deputy Director (as Doctor Khasu)

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Uncle Kgato

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Nurse Nonkululeko

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Dr Ledwaba (as Thami Africa)

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Robert

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Grace

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Gugu

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Priest

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Voice-Over Artist

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Brenda

as
Nduna


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