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Some rumour mongers and unsubstantiated sources are gossiping about the demise of the reality-help show Zola 7 on SABC1. Get a grip. Get better sources. SABC1 is NOT cancelling Zola 7.
Bonginkosi Dlamini, aka Zola 7 is not going anywhere according to my sources. And they should know. They actually work IN television. In fact, they work IN the SABC and directly WITH the decision makers who makes those sort of programming decisions.
Gossip mongers will notice that nobody has actually asked SABC1 about it. Well, I did, and they're working on an answer.
''We don't know where it comes from,'' another extremely well-placed source, who I quickly phoned up, just told me about the tabloid rumours which started circulating since yesterday. ''It is just not true.''
Fact: Zola 7 can't be shopped to another channel. Fact: Zola 7 was commissioned by SABC1 and is not suited for any other channel than SABC1. Fact: Zola 7 is a huge money-spinner, getting a massive viewership per episode. There's absolutely no way that SABC1 is going to cancel a huge revenue generating local TV property like Zola 7, or allow it to go somewhere else.
