Springfield has the Simpsons, Colorado has the South Park boys, and now, South Africa has the Kotzes. Welcome to
Systraat!.Systraat!, produced by Stemmburg Television and the brainchild of Carl Stemmet, is a humorous, animated, for-adults Afrikaans television series which depicts the exploits of the Kotze family, who live in a humble suburban home. The sitcom has all the elements of love, laughter, and of course, it’s proudly South African.
Systraat! will deal with relevant and universal topics including father/mother-son relationships, teenage love, high school struggles, conditions at the workplace, friendships, and family squabbles in a unique and local setting. The storylines throughout the series will deal with engaging and hilarious events which take the Kotze family from the bushveld to Margate and even to Cape Town.
The ensemble of characters form a distinctive animated community which aims to represent all South Africans. The characters and their reactions and attitudes towards the situations they find themselves in are identifiable across all cultures.
The series is a fresh new look at the lives of a group of South Africans and how they deal with their day-to-day lives. It is a humorous look, a witty look, a ridiculous look, and best of all, an animated look. A first for South African TV.
Catch the Kotzes, South Africa’s very own animated family, in
Systraat! on SABC3’s
YouTube from Tuesday, 24 November at 21:00.
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