Thursday, September 6, 2012

Programming note: Bornfrees on e.tv, the show tracking a group of 8 South African kids over years, back for another very special episode.


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Bornfrees, the special documentary series on e.tv tracking 8 South African children in a longitudinal historical video series, is back with more new footage from Sunday, 16 September at 18:05.

Bornfrees is a 21 minute youth lifestyle documentary series which is following the lives of 8 young people born since the official end of apartheid in South Africa.

In 2004 e.tv's Bornfrees followed 10 children born in 1994 in an attempt to explore what it meant for them to be "born free". In 2009, the second season of Bornfrees saw a follow-up when they reached the age of 15. Now, viewers will once again get the chance to reconnect with 8 of the original Bornfrees to see how their lives have changed now that they're turning 18.

The 3rd season of Bornfrees will start by taking viewers back to the first season, as well as set the tone for things to come.

Viewers will meet up again with Thabiso Nkani, Sasha-Lee Subramoney as well as Thandeka Mbokazi from KwaZulu-Natal. There's also Kegan de Beer, Aminah Raciet and Likhaya Poni from the Western Cape, as well as Khumbula Ngcobo and Aletta Beukes from Gauteng.

Now older, wiser and almost completing their grade 12, viewers will get a glimpse of what has changed and how they're all dealing with being on the brink of adulthood.