Vanguard Awards 2025
Channel: SABC2
TX Time: 20h30
Genre: Awards, Music
The 2025 Basadi in Music Awards took place on 1-2 August, 2025, at the Joburg Theatre in Braamfontein, Johannesburg.
On the first night of the event, held on Friday, 1 August, Lamiez Holworthy hosted the Vanguard Awards, shining a spotlight on the unsung heroines behind the scenes — artist managers, entertainment producers, hairstylists and creative masterminds who fuel the industry's magic.
Winners include Relebogile Mabotja (TV Producer of the Year), Lootluv (Entertainment Radio Presenter of the Year), Laconco (Podcaster of the Year), Tlhogi Molefe (Choreographer of the Year) and Zanele Potelwa (Music TV Show Presenter of the Year).
Hunters of the Reef
Channel: Nat Geo Wild (DStv 182 / StarSat 221)
TX Time: 18h00
Genre: Wildlife, Nature, Documentary
Tropical coral reefs are the picture of colorful, light-dappled tranquillity – but that's a scuba diver's perspective.
To the scaly and gilled inhabitants, it's a fish-eat-fish environment ruled by pods of dolphins who prowl the area at mealtimes while everyone else runs for cover.
Incredible weapons, camouflage, venomous defences and exceptional strategies have evolved among the smaller hunters in constant competition.
Lionfish hunt in packs, injecting any objectors with venom from their frilly spikes.
The mantis shrimp has polarized vision and the fastest jab on the planet.
Cuttlefish morph their skin to match the sand, then attack with tentacle harpoons.
A stonefish sucks in prey like a vacuum, and there are many more ingenious ways to survive.
The hunt is on in the shifting tides.