"How do we build a rainbow nation if TV shows only feature a certain race?"
4 March 2021 1:55 PM
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Within hours of Love Island SA debut #LoveIslandOrania was trending - in reference to the famous 'whites-only' Northern Cape town.
Televisions show in South Africa must be representative of the citizens of the country if we are to move away from the segregation of the past and towards a more multicultural society.
That's according to Lutendo Nendauni, lecturer and language editor at North-West University.
In 2016 Nenduani wrote a paper critiquing the cultural and racial representation in South African soapies.
He joined CapeTalk's Lester Kiewit on Thursday to talk about the allegations of lack of representation in the MNet series Love Island SA.