Dancing with the Stars (South African TV series)

Dancing with the Stars
Genre	Reality Competition
Based on	Strictly Come Dancing
Presented by	Tracey Lange Chris Jaftha
Judges	Tebogo Kgobokoe Bryan Watson Debbie Turner Jason Gikison
Country of origin	South Africa
Original languages	English Afrikaans isiZulu
No. of seasons	1
Original release
Network	M-Net
Release	4 February 2018

Dancing with the Stars SA is an South African dance competition television series that premiered on February 4, 2018 on M-Net. The show is the South African version of the BBC Worldwide format Dancing with the Stars. The show is produced by Rapid Blue and co-hosted by Tracey Lange and Chris Jaftha.

The format of the show consists of 6 Male and 6 Female celebrities paired with a professional dancer. Each couple performs predetermined dances and competes against the others for judges' points and audience votes. The couple receiving the lowest combined total of judges' points and audience votes is eliminated each week until only the champion dance pair remains.

Cast

Host

• Chris Jaftha
• Tracey Lange

Judges

• Jason Gilkison
• Tebogo Kgobokoe
• Debbie Turner
• Bryan Watson

Stars

Season One

Season One

Star	Known for	Profesional Dancer	Status
Ebenhaezer Dibakwane	Comedian	Nombulelo Hlathi	Eliminated 1st on 18 February 2018
Thembisa Mdoda	Sister of Anele Mdoda, TV presenter & actress	Devon Snell	Eliminated 2nd on 25 February 2018
Odessa Swarts	Sprinter & mother of Wayde van Niekerk	Dylon Daniels	Eliminated 3rd on 4 March 2018
Thando Manana	Former Springbok player	Michelle Oppenshaw	Eliminated 4th on 11 March 2018
Delron Buckley	Former Bafana Bafana footballer	Angelique Allison	Eliminated 5th on 18 March 2018
Juanita de Villiers	Theatre & movie actress	Johan Dippenaar	Eliminated 6th on 25 March 2018
Liesl Laurie	Miss South Africa 2015	Ryan Hammond	Eliminated 7th on 1 April 2018
Frank Opperman	Actor	Jeanné Swart	Eliminated 8th on 8 April 2018
Connell Cruise	Pop singer	Marcella Solimeo
Eden Classens	Suidooster actor and model	Ash-Leigh Hunter
Vanes-Mari du Toit	National netball player	Johannes Radebe
Zola Nombona	Actress	Tebogo Mashilo

Scoring and Voting

Each Week Judges Score out of 10 each and bring a total out of 40, during the Elimination Nights, Registered Voters can Vote During the Live Shows for their Favourite Couple out of 100 Vote. The Total Public votes will be added as part of 50% of the total of the Judges Score. The Couple with the least Score will be eliminated.

Times and Reception

The show airs on M-Net on a Sunday at 17:00 to 19:00 and the Results are revealed after M-Net's flagship Investigative show Carte Blanche and before M-Net's Sunday Blockbuster Movie.