It was originally intended to be a limited series spanning one year, its first season picking up two SAFTAs.
[2] The series centres on a prestigious school, its administration, and the families associated with it in a fictional community of the Cape Flats called Arendsvlei.
[3] Arendsvlei is based on a concept Theltom Masimila brainstormed and originally penned as a short story.
Masimila makes a point of the Afrikaans dialect used in the series being "authentically Cape-based".
[7] Also in the writers' room are Wilmien Rossouw, the head storyliner, as well as Ilse Oppelt, Margaret Goldsmid, Henry Cloete, Quanita Adams, Johann Davis and Retief Scholtz.