Congratulations to Mama Elizabeth Serunye scooping her #SAFTAs18 for Best Actress in a TV Soap!🎉🎊🏆🥳
#SkeemSaamhe River received two awards, while Skeem Saam won four and Outlaws received eight Saftas in this year’s Telenovela and Soap categories.
The nominees for the 18th ceremony was announced on Thursday, 05 September.
ABOUT THE SAFTAS
The awards serve to encourage entrepreneurship and the development of new talent within the industry and each award recipient is presented with the ‘Golden Horn’ trophy.
The ‘Golden Horn’ has three heads symbolising collective effort, community, and the recognition of the individual as part of a team – an experience inherent to the film and television industry where collaboration is the cornerstone of successful productions.
SAFTAS NOMINEES: TV SOAP/TELENOVELA
BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN WARDROBE – TV SOAP/TELENOVELA
1802: Love Defies Time
Outlaws
House of Zwide
BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN MAKE-UP AND HAIRSTYLING – TV SOAP/TELENOVELA
Binnelanders
1802: Love Defies Time
Suidooster
BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND – TELENOVELA
Outlaws
Diepe Waters
The River
BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN EDITING – TELENOVELA
My Brother’s Keeper
Outlaws
The River
BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN ORIGINAL MUSIC/SCORE – TELENOVELA
1802: Love Defies Time
The River
Isitha: The Enemy
Outlaws
BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN CINEMATOGRAPHY – TELENOVELA
1802: Love Defies Time
Outlaws
Diepe Waters
BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN ART DIRECTION – TV SOAP/TELENOVELA
Outlaws
Suidooster
The River
BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN SCRIPTWRITING – TELENOVELA
The Estate
Outlaws
Isitha: The Enemy
BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTING – TELENOVELA
Diepe Waters
Outlaws
The River
BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN SCRIPTWRITING – TV SOAP
Binnelanders
Skeem Saam
Scandal!
BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTING – TV SOAP
Scandal!
Suidooster
Skeem Saam
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A TV SOAP
Marlee van der Merwe – Binnelanders
Bianca Amato – Binnelanders
Nkhensani Mlondzo – Scandal!
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A TV SOAP
Kabelo Thai – Scandal!
Clement Maosa – Skeem Saam
Maruputla Sehlapelo – Skeem Saam
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A TELENOVELA
Lunathi Mampofu – 1802: Love Defies Time
Hlengiwe Lushaba-Madlala – My Brother’s Keeper
Mmarona Motshegoa – Redemption
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A TELENOVELA
Seputla Sebogodi – Redemption
Mpho Sebeng – The Estate
Thembinkosi Mthembu – The River
BEST ACTRESS IN A TV SOAP
Je-ani Swiegelaar – Binnelanders
Nolwazi Ngubeni – Scandal!
Elizabeth Serunye – Skeem Saam
BEST ACTOR IN A TV SOAP
Germandt Geldenhuys – Binnelanders
Melusi Mbele – Scandal!
Hykie Berg – Binnelanders
BEST ACTRESS IN A TELENOVELA
Zikhona Sodlaka – Gqeberha: The Empire
Sindi Dlathu – The River
Connie Chiume – Gomora
BEST ACTOR IN A TELENOVELA
Thembinkosi Mthembu – Outlaws
Themba Ndaba – Redemption
Jody Abrahams – Arendsvlei
Presley Chweneyagae – The River
Lindani Nkosi – My Brother’s Keeper
BEST TV SOAP
Suidooster
Skeem Saam
Scandal!
BEST TELENOVELA
House of Zwide
Outlaws
Redemption
The River
Gqeberha: The Empire
PUBLIC VOTING CATEGORY: Most Popular TV Soap and Telenovela
1802: Love Defies Time
Arendsvlei
My Brother’s Keeper
Binnelanders
Diepe Waters
Generations: The Legacy
Gomora
Isitha: The Enemy
House of Zwide
Smoke & Mirrors
Umkhokha: The Curse
Redemption
Scandal!
Suidooster
Skeem Saam
The Estate
The River