6.2 /10 1 Votes
Running time 30 minutes per episode First episode date 2000 | 6.3/10 No. of episodes 65 Original network SABC Number of episodes 65 Awards Peabody Award | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Original release 2000–2003 (original)2007–2009 (new) – on hiatus Similar Sesame Street, Sesame Tree, 5 - Rue Sésame, Ulitsa Sezam, Hikayat Simsim Profiles |
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Takalani Sesame ("be happy Sesame" in Venda) is the South African version of the children's television program Sesame Street. Co-produced by Sesame Workshop and South African partners, Takalani Sesame is now in its 10th year. Takalani Sesame is a uniquely South African interpretation of the Sesame model engaging children and their parents and promoting basic school readiness, literacy, numeracy, and health and hygiene. Takalani Sesame also has a special focus on HIV/AIDS awareness and seeks to introduce HIV/AIDS safety while promoting tolerance and reducing stigma. The Takalani series also includes a popular radio program, a newspaper and magazine comic strip series, and a national Talk to ME Campaign which encourages adults to talk to their children about HIV/AIDS and related issues. The introduction of an HIV-positive muppet for this purpose was widely misunderstood by the U.S. political right, with such groups as the American Family Association mistaking it as a means for homosexual activists to influence young viewers. An estimated 17% of South Africa's population aged 15–49 have HIV/AIDS.
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The show incorporates all of South Africa's 11 national languages, including Afrikaans, English, Zulu, Xhosa, Swazi, Ndebele, Sesotho, Northern Sotho, Tsonga, Tswana and Venda.
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Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Kofi Annan, and Nane Annan have made guest appearances on the show.
Characters
Crew
Episode guide
- The Muppets sing "Doing the Family Thing" (2000)
- The Muppets see the importance of exercise in "What I Can Do" and "Mika Skipping Rope" (2000)
- The song "That's what friends are for" explores the qualities of a friend (2000)
- Zikwe writes a "book about me" (2000)
- Takalani Sesame is holding a party about food (2000)
- In "Sunrise to Sunset", we see the movement of the sun during the day; a farmer plants corn and waits for rain (2000)
- The Muppets learn that whenever we talk about transport we must also talk about safety; a bird helps a monkey get bananas (2000)
- This is what my body can do (2000)
- The children look at some special things that they can make or do (2000)
- Children make their own elephant masks for a performance (2000)
- Children greet each other in 11 languages (2000)
- A little boy's sister has HIV and learns coping strategies (2000)
- Losing things, looking for them and finding them are at the heart of this show (2001)
- This show looks at different feelings and how we can express these feelings (2001)
- Zuzu and Moshe share memories of toys they used to have; combing your hair can be fun (2001)
- In a song we learn that insects are part of the circle of life (2001)
- The Muppets and the children learn that everything and everybody needs water (2001)
- In this show we see the Muppets busy with activities that need persistence and concentration; an ant works around an obstacle in his path (2001)
- Zikwe and Zuzu use a telescope to look at the moon (2001)