Children's terrifying horror drawings at the SABC turns out to be ... the SABC's marketing department in a hilarious new LNN skit on eNCA.

The South African public broadcaster has a happy place for the little ones to play and draw (although the terrifying drawings of crying children and monsters tell the real story) - until you discover that it's not the SABC daycare creche ... but the inside of the SABC's marketing department.

That the hilarious skit the satirical weekly news show Late Nite News with Loyiso Gola on eNCA (DStv 403) came up with for its latest episode.

In it the LNN cameras venture inside the beleaguered South African Broadcasting Corporation for a satirical look at the various SABC departments.

There's the SABC's finance department where they're secretly burning documents, human resources where they're unable to read the CV's, and even SABC personnel ordering in a DStv decoder from MultiChoice (they watch DStv at the SABC for "research").

"Here at the SABC it's not about work, work, work, work. We have a space for the employees to bring their little ones. And they're not here, but as you can see, they are enjoying their time here," says the presenter when he enters the room with garish children drawings.

"Hey baba, this is the marketing department," says a person who suddenly shows up and created the rough crayon sketch of the SABC logo above. "Marketing department".

It's great that LNN which is seen on TV news channel in South Africa, is willing to confront a probably sensitive elephant in the room which is the public broadcaster, and is willing to do a satirical sketch about the SABC.

In 2013 LNN did an equally hilarious send-up of ANN7 (DStv 405), following the absolutely disastrous launch and mediocre on-air standards of the Infinity Media run "GuptaTV" and "GuptaNews" TV channel which is also on MultiChoice's DStv platform.

LNN shows that it will treat all news equally if it is news and a buzzworthy topic, and that everything and everyone is fair game when it comes to public ridicule.

Here's a very brief few second from the funny LNN visit to the SABC:

Late Nite News with Loyiso Gola on eNCA does a hilarious SABC1 Khumbul'ekhaya, begging Mamma Ramphela to come home to Agang.

It's incredibly clever and hilarious - but to fully get it you need to know and have watched the original show.

Wednesday night on Late Nite News with Loyiso Gosa on eNCA (DStv 403) at 21:30, the clever comedy show team came up with a skit in which the satirical news show did an imitation of SABC1's emotionally exploitative, yet so deliciously melodramatic missing family member show, Khumbul'ekhaya.

For the sad white people who've never watched Khumbul'ekhaya, a quick lesson.

Kuhumbul'ekhaya literally means "Remember home" or "Remembering Home". (And yes, I watch it, and my brother and his whole family watch it, and we watch SABC2's Friday night classi-trash tokolosh drama. But I digress.)

Khumbul'ekhaya revolves around emotional people who reach out to lost or missing family members - with the TV show which then tries to find the person.

Then everybody makes contact, but it's often not happy and hardly ever really ends happy - it's just drama and tears and heavy insanity, because social dysfunction actually led to the person who left to leave in the first place - but you have to watch it to believe it. Engrossing television.

Anyway. So LNN with Loyiso Gola cleverly used the format and made their own version of Khumbul'ekhaya - and what a genius idea.

In their "episode" of Khumbul'ekhaya it was distraught Agang political party members who wanted their Mamma, Ramphela Mamphele back. Ramphela Mamphele left for the Democratic Alliance and Helen Zille and deserted her Agang family. The skit was hilarious.

It was classic Khumbul'ekhaya, but with an extremely current twist and perfectly conceptualised for LNN.

It had some hilarious one-liners:

"I'm writing this letter to Khumbul'ekhaya, to find the mother of our organisation."

"She has abandoned us."

"We last saw her at the office. She asked for the stapler. And we didn't have a stapler."

"We used to do things together. Share Tippex."

"She was last seen, kissing a Botoxi woman in Cape Town".

"Why are you going around Mama, kissing random people when you have a home here?"