AnewZ

AnewZ is South Africa's attempt at a proper general entertainment channel with a local accent. Daytime leans heavily on talk shows, panel discussions about relationships and money, the kind of content that works in the 10am slot when the audience is home. But the channel comes alive at night: local dramas with storylines reflecting life in Johannesburg and Cape Town, not some generic soap template. Production values aren't BBC-level, but there's a scrappy energy polished channels lack. Reality shows dominate weekends, home makeovers, cooking competitions mixing Afrikaans and English. If you want to understand what South African households actually watch after the news, this is it. To watch AnewZ live is to see a country's television culture doing its thing without pretending to be American. You can watch AnewZ online through Tvivu, which is how many catch the channel outside traditional DStv packages. It's a general TV South Africa offering that feels authentic, even when the shows aren't groundbreaking.