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One Day Leader

Leadership television built around the voices and choices shaping South Africa.

An Angel Eye production legacy story · Powered by Mountain Top Productions
ProductionOne Day Leader
RoleConcept development and production
PlatformSABC1

The story

Purpose in
every frame.

One Day Leader follows six young South Africans as they test their leadership skills against real social, economic and political questions. Each theme moves from research and community experience into debate, personal conviction and a public vision for the country.

The format combines factual research, field challenges, studio debate and audience-facing storytelling. Mountain Top Productions’ archive documents the programme as a multi-season SABC1 production and preserves complete episode links for Seasons 6 and 7.

Archive recognitionThe programme concept is recorded in the production archive as receiving innovative-idea recognition at the Japan Prize Festival.
SABC1 Broadcast platform
6 Young leaders per season
25 Archive episode links
SA Nationwide perspective

Leadership legacy

Six seasons.
Six voices.

The programme archive identifies the winning young leader from each of the first six seasons.

Lesley Masibi Season 1 Lesley Masibi
Ndumiso Hadebe Season 2 Ndumiso Hadebe
Octavia Shabangu Season 3 Octavia Shabangu
Zareef Minty Season 4 Zareef Minty
Sydney Madibo Season 5 Sydney Madibo
Zongezile Qeba Season 6 Zongezile Qeba

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