Egoli: Place of Gold
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| Genre | Soap opera |
| Created by | Franz Marx |
| Starring | Christine Basson Shaleen Surtie-Richards Brümilda van Rensburg David Vlok Steve Hofmeyr Lynne McCarthy Joan Collins |
| Country of origin |
 South Africa
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| Original language(s) | English Afrikaans |
| No. of seasons | 18 |
| No. of episodes | 4,469 (As of 22 May 2009) |
| Production | |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
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| Original network | M-Net |
| Original release | 6 April 1992 – 31 March 2010 |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Egoli: Place of Gold is a long-running bilingual (English and Afrikaans) South African soap opera which first aired on M-Net on 6 April 1992. South African television's first daily soap opera, on 3 December 1999 Egoli became the first South African television program in any genre to reach 2,000 episodes. As of 3 August 2007, 4,000 episodes had aired. Egoli: Place of Gold aired its final episode on 31 March 2010, after 18 years of acting from South African and international actors.
The series was set in Johannesburg, which is sometimes referred to as eGoli. Egoli was created by Franz Marx. The show is known in Afrikaans as Egoli: Plek van Goud.
Egoli was "aimed at women of all nationalities between the ages of 25 and 45, with middle or upper incomes." The series aired Monday to Friday at 18:00. However on from April 2009, M-Net moved Egoli to the 18:30 timeslot.
The series had a large following, and "Egoli Spectaculars" were held countrywide each year for fans of the series to meet the cast. These spectaculars offered publicity for the series but also raised money for charity.
Cast members included--
International Guest stars:
The TV series was broadcast outside of South Africa, in neighboring countries in the original bilingual Afrikaans-English version, and, beginning in May 1997, in an English-only international version. The bilingual version was shown in Botswana, Zimbabwe, and Namibia, where Afrikaans was spoken or widely understood. In the late 1990s, the English version was broadcast in at least 9 African countries: Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, Zambia, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, and Mauritius.
At one time in the 1990s, the series was shown in at least 30 countries.
In creating the international version, all Afrikaans-language scenes were filmed twice, first in Afrikaans, then in English. To make the series more appealing to non-South African audiences, typical South African sayings and customs, were deleted from the international edition.
Egoli was also dubbed in Spanish for broadcast in some South American countries.
Egoli: Place of Gold was one of the South African soaps to be parodied by comedian Casper de Vries in his soap parody Haak en Steek.
The final episode of the series aired on 31 March 2010. The final episode included surprises and special guests and ended at the memorial.
It was announced in August 2009 that a movie entitled Egoli - The Movie would conclude the longest-running soap opera in South African history. The movie was produced by series creator and writer Franz Marx, in cooperation with Burgert Muller, a co-producer of the TV series, and Pieter Venter of Brigadiers-Franz Marx Films. The feature film was released in South African cinemas on 16 June 2010 and starred many cast members from the TV show including David Rees, Shaleen Surtie-Richards, Tiffany Kelly, Christine Basson, Brümilda van Rensburg, and Lerato Motau. Some sources list the title of the movie as Egoli: Afrikaners is Plesierig.
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