kykNET on DStv adds brand-new actuality timeslot with new programming strands and presenters every weeknight from 6 October.

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M-Net's Afrikaans language TV channel kykNET (DStv 144) is adding a brand-new late-night actuality timeslot with new programmes and presenters as a fixed new programming strand which will run on every weeknight from Monday 6 October.

From Monday 6 October viewers will be able to tune in for new actuality and magazine shows like Insig with Waldimar Pelser who is the editor of the Afrikaans Sunday newspaper Rapport; while kykNET is reviving one of its first local actuality shows, the longrunning studio talk show Prontuit and is even bringing back the original presenter Mariëtta Kruger.

The new kykNET actuality timeslot is in response to viewers demanding less repeats and more regularly updated magazine and actuality programming which changes more often than other serialised and heavily repeated shows.

The new weekday actuality slot on kykNET will feature various programmes ranging from politics and economic issues to business, culture, the arts, fashion and even satire.

The increase in new Afrikaans programming on kykNET comes at the same time that the SABC moved the bulk of Afrikaans programming permanently from SABC2 to SABC3, the public broadcaster's TV channel with the smallest footprint, making several Afrikaans TV shows less accessible to millions of terrestrial TV viewers in South Africa.

In July the SABC lied and said the move of the Afrikaans TV news bulletin from SABC2 to SABC3 as well as programming was only temporary, although it had already been planned as a permanent move.

The SABC also ordered the Afrikaans soap 7de Laan on SABC2 to reduced the amount of Afrikaans.

Besides Waldimar Pelser, Yvonne Beyers and Mariëtta Kruger kykNET viewers will also see iconic South African soap star Shaleen Surtie-Richards becoming a TV presenter, as well as Jody Abrahams, Bouwer Bosch, Santie Botha, Kabous Meiring, Kim Cloete, Divan Botha, Fanie Cronjé, Francois Toerien and Melt Sieberhagen fronting shows from October in the actuality timeslot.

"At kykNET, we continuously strive to improve and renew our schedule," says Karen Meiring, M-Net's director of Afrikaans channels.

"Our viewers' need for more relevant actuality programming was the reason behind the decision to make our available late night slots more actuality-driven, instead of repeating programmes".

"We not only want to inform and entertain, but also expand on everyday issues to stimulate conversation. This is a major move to something fresh and highly exciting – a brand new late night lineup that'll get tongues wagging on screen and across all social and other media".

Kokkedoor starting tonight on kykNET as a cooking competition reality show with a twist; contestants to battle it out making folksy foods.

Kokkedoor, the new Afrikaans food competition reality show with a twist, is starting tonight on kykNET (DStv 144) at 20:00 - looking to find South Africa's best nostalgia food cook.

The novel premise of the show, produced by Homebrew Films, and set in the picturesque town of Prince Albert, sees ordinary South Africans battling it out over the course of 13 episodes to create the best well-known folksy food recipes but properly updated for the 21st century.

A lot of the Kokkedoor contestants come from small places across South Africa, with names like Poppie Coetzer from Kriel, Riekies Huisamen from Krugersdorp, Mynhardt Joubert from Malmesbury, Rendil Pietersen from Wellington, Toitnette du Toit from Montagu, Marinda Engelbrecht from Hopefield, Sarel Loots from Sabie and Theresa de Vries from Brandvlei.

While the pressure (and the pressure cooker) is on and time is running out, viewers will see contestants battle it out in a race against the clock trying to prepare dishes which usually take - and require - a lot of time to be done properly.

Mariëtta Kruger is the presenter with the food experts Nic van Wyk and Hetta van Deventer Terblanche as the judges.

In the first episode of Kokkedoor this evening, viewers will see the 20 contestants hit the road to the so-called "home" of "nostalgia food", Prince Albert with their precious old school food recipes in their suitcases.

Challenges in future episodes include such things as preparing Sunday lunch meals, church bazaar baking, rugby braais, making desserts, cooking jam, whipping up koeksisters and milk tart and even baking bread.

WHERE ARE YOU ALL GOING? Nando's makes the news - literally - by using Mariëtta Kruger and people dashing for parliament's doors.

Nando's latest video advert employs news studio footage of famed newswoman Mariëtta Kruger - her voice dubbed - with images of parliamentarians all in a mad dash for the door, as they flee the apparently terrible food in the hallowed halls of South Africa's parliament.

"Today in parliament there was an uproar when it was suggested the national assembly order anything other than the Nando's full pack meal," starts the ad with a voice-over over the image of Mariëtta Kruger as if she's reading the news once again on television as she once really did for years on the SABC.

The voice however is clearly not hers.

Then there's footage of a massive number of people heading for the door and filing out of the benches as a perplexed would-be speaker or chairperson keeps monotonously asking: "Where are you all going? Where are you all going?"