Rise! on SABC1 adds Mbali Qotyana to the weekly female talk show panel.

Mbali Qotyana has been added to SABC1's female panel talk show Rise! on Tuesdays at 18:00 withveteran talk show host and moderator Kgomotso Matsunyane.

Mbali Qotyana joins Khanyisile Mazibuko, artist Lebo Shikwambane and Lebogang Ramafoko.

The talk show aimed at women between 15 and 24, discuss "taboo issues that would otherwise fall through the cracks".

Rise! started in mid-May on SABC1.

Kgomotso Matsunyane to present a second weekly TV talk show, Sex Talk, on CTV from 9 July; promises 'frank, fun' discussion of sexuality.

Multi-tasking, multi-talker Kgomotso Matsunyane isn't staying with just the SABC, next week she will start her second nationally shown TV talk show, Sex Talk on community TV station Cape Town TV (DStv 263) at 19:30.

Kgomotso Matsunyane who is the moderator of the recently started panel discussion talk show Rise on SABC1 starts another talk show on Thursday, 9 July on Cape Town TV, opening up the discussion about sex and sexuality.

Sex Talk promises to be CTV's most provocative show yet and since the terrestrial community TV station is carried on MultiChoice's DStv satellite pay-TV platform making it accessible for DStv subscribers nationally, viewership will likely spike for Cape Town TV with the addition of the weekly talk show.

Episodes of Sex Talk will repeat on CTV on Saturdays at 21:00.

Kgomotso Matsunyane promises that Sex Talk will be a frank discussion about sex, "yes – sex, that topic that we dare not talk about, even though people are thinking sex, wanting sex, reading sex, watching sex, having sex, avoiding sex, or even worse, hurting or killing someone through sex".

Like SABC1's Rise, Kgomotso Matsunyane's new concurrent talk show which will be "a fun, frank and entertaining weekly talk show" will also have panelists and guests in conversation to talk about sex. Sex Talk topics will range from masturbation and deception to infidelity and impotency.

Sex Talk will also tackle issues of social concerns, such as sexual equality, teenage pregnancy, the role of the parents, violence based on sex and sexuality, but also the pleasures of sex.

"By allowing guests to interact in dialogue rather than being interviewed, Sex Talk enables free flowing and uninhibited conversation - and what emerges is revelatory," says Kgomotso Matsunyane.

SABC1 adds Rise from 12 May marking Kgomotso Matsunyane's return to talk TV exploding with rival shows all targeting a female audience.

Kgomotso Matsunyane is returning to television talk with a new local, weekly TV talk show entitled Rise which will start on SABC1 on Tuesday 12 May at 18:00 and which will join an intensely crowded line-up of talk shows all trying to lure the same viewers.

Rise, originally titled Rise Up and produced by One Man And His Dog Films, takes the original format of Barbara Walters' American talk show The View with Kgomotso Matsunyane who, like Barbara Walters, is not only the executive producer of the talk show but also one of the panelists comprising women of different age brackets talking about various issues affecting women.

Kgomotso Matsunyane is joined on the couch by Lebo Ramafoko and Khanyisile Mazibuko (19) and Nyiko Shikwambane (23).

It marks Kgomotso Matsunyane's return to TV talk who previously tried her hand at late night talk with Late Night with Kgomotso on SABC2 as well as Pillow Talk on SABC3. She was a commissioning editor at SABC1 before embarking on her TV talk show tries.

Kgomotso Matsunyane was a surprise guest during the final live episode of Three Talk with Noeleen on SABC3 two weeks ago, telling Noeleen Maholwana-Sangqu during her TV farewell that "you know how difficult and fickle this industry can be".

Rise will take place in conjunction with the roll-out of The Rise Young Women's Clubs across South Africa to try and help specifically young women with relevant information about health and lifestyle issues.

Rise will discuss topics like unplanned pregnancy, abuse, alcohol abuse and its consequences, sex and body image.

Rise forms part of  a rapid television talk show change on South African television with the addition of several new shows just the past two months to the already over-subscribed talk show genre, making it difficult for viewers to keep up and to stay loyal to any given programme.

SABC1 just added the American TV talk show The Talk on weekdays at 16:30 which will now compete with sister-channel SABC3's Afternoon Express at 16:00 which starts today.

Afternoon Express will be broadcast on weekdays with Bonang Matheba, Jeannie D, Bonnie Mbuli and one of the final three winners of SABC3's Presenter Search on 3 reality competition show.

The American talk show The Meredith Vieira Show started in March at 14:00 on SABC3, and e.tv took over The Steve Harvey Show on weekdays at 16:30 since the beginning of March which used to be on SABC1.

The recent addition of the new BET (DStv 129) channel with a better aligned schedule for South Africa viewers, means that The Wendy Williams Show, now at 16:35, is directly competing with The Talk, The Steve Harvey Show, Ellen on M-Net (DStv 101), and SABC3's Afternoon Express - in addition to the same-day-as-in-the-USA episode of Wendy being shown on BET International (StarSat 167) on StarSat at 19:00 in primetime.

The Real, yet another panel talk show with various women - Tamar Braxton, Loni Love, Adrienne Bailon, Jeannie Mai and Tamera Mowry-Housley - started at the beginning of April on weekdays on BET (DStv 129) at 17:25.

SABC3 plans to add The Real to its own schedule as well from later in the year.

SHOCKER! Kgomotso Matsunyane resigns as co-chairperson of the South African Screen Federation (Sasfed).

You're reading it here first.

Another resignation besides the suspended SABC group CEO Solly Mokoetle happened today: I can exclusively break the news that Kgomotso Matsunyane has unexpectedly tendered her resignation as co-chairperson of the massive South African Screen Federation (Sasfed) today which is set to send ripples, if not a shockwave, through South Africa's TV production community.

Besides a very news-filled day for the South African television industry with Mara Louw officially losing her judge's seat on M-Net's Idols today and Solly Mokoetle getting a golden handshake of millions of rands after he agreed to quit and leave the SABC (my full coverage today RIGHT HERE), I can reveal that Kgomotso Matsunyane no longer wishes to lead this massive federation comprised of film, television and audiovisual industry organisations.

The friendly and charismatic Kgomotso Matsunyane is a producer, writer and director but is best known to ordinary South Africans as the host of her own SABC2 late night talk show, Late Night with Kgomotso.

TOLDJA! SABC2 confirms that Late Night with Kgomotso is back for a second season of her late night talk show.

SABC2 just officially confirmed the news that I broke first and exclusively in June already RIGHT HERE: That Kgomotso Matsunyane will return for a second season of her late night talker to SABC2.

 Late Night with Kgomotso Matsunyane will return to SABC2 for a second season on Saturday, August 7 at 21:35 with the host who currently has her own radio show on Kaya FM. Of course people in the local TV biz will actually know Kgomotso Matsunyane more for her stint as commissioning editor at SABC1 for local drama productions a while back as well as T.O.M. Pictures - the film and TV production company that she owns and runs. Of course she's currently a co-chairperson of the powerful industry trade body Sasfed (The South African Screen Federation).

What SABC2 of course won't be shouting for the rooftops - and just to show you how schizophrenic the TV business actually really is (yes, it can make you mad) - is of course the fact that Kgomotso Matsunyane had a huge struggle to get her money for the first season of Late Night with Kgomotso which she also produced through T.O.M. Pictures from the SABC. She basically lost her house and car during the public broadcaster's financial troubles last year when local producers simply didn't get paid and are still owed millions by the SABC. I'll connect the dots for you - and now you can see why Kgomotso Matsunyane decided to become co-chair of Sasfed earlier this year looking out for local producers' interest in this tough, tough, tough TV and film production environment.