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SABC cleans up awards
30/10/2006 07:36 - (SA)
Amanda de Lange, Beeld
Johannesburg - The SABC3 drama Hard Copy and soap Isidingo have been awarded several prizes at the first South African Film and Television Awards (Saftas).
Hard Copy won four awards, including best drama and the best actor in a drama, James Ncgobo.
Isidingo won all but two of the awards in the soap category, including best soapie, writer, costume design, make-up and lighting.
Isidingo stars Ashley Cole (Lee Haines) and Robert Whitehead (Barker Haines) won best soap actress and actor awards.
City Ses'la won best comedy, and Greig Coetzee received an award for its script, and was also part of the team that won the drama category best script for Hard Copy.
Tsotsi a winner
Oscar-winning film Tsotsi won three prizes in the film category, among them for the best actor, Presley Cheweneyagae and the best film.
Most of the programmes nominated for awards were produced by SABC's three channels. One e.tv programme, Backstage, received several nominations, and Carte Blanche, the M-Net actuality programme, was nominated once.
The only other non-SABC nominations were in the film category.
Zola 7 won the award for best news/actuality programme and Solving It was best factual entertainment programme.
Best magazine programme was Top Billing, while The Weakest Link took the award for best game show. Mojo took the talk show award.
Technical, audience problems
About 2 000 people attended the star-studded evening broadcast live on SABC2, but it was beset by technical problems, as well as an audience that chose to spend more time in the reception hall than attending the awards ceremony.
Before the start of the broadcast, the audience wasn't informed properly what would be expected of them. Guests walked in and out and sometimes talked so loudly that it was difficult to follow what was happening on stage. The hall was sometimes virtually half full.
The Friday evening awards ceremony for technical excellence and for short and student films were also beset by the absence of winners, delays and confusion, reported Jacques Liebenberg.
The ceremony apparently started over an hour late because of a power failure, and several of the winners were not present or didn't have a representative to pick up their awards.
There was also confusion when the wrong winners in certain categories were called to the stage.
Several names were incorrectly displayed on the big screen on which the names of the nominees appeared, and at one stage a highlights package of the Rugby World Cup tournament referred to it being held in 1994 instead of 1995.
Full list of winners
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