[1] Come Dine With Me South Africa follows four strangers as they visit one another's homes for dinner and attempt to outwit and impress fellow guests with their culinary and hospitality skills in a bid to win a cash prize of R10,000 and Pick n Pay vouchers.
Episode 1 of the first series kicked off with two ladies from the South East of Johannesburg, Estie Matheus and Michelle Jordan, jointly winning and having to share the prizes and concluded with a celebrity special featuring M-Net presenter Ashley Hayden, SuperSport’s Neil Andrews, 94.7 Highveld Stereo’s Sam Cowen and model Shashi Naidoo.
Distributed by ITV Studios Global Entertainment, it is produced in 36 territories internationally including Germany, France and Australia.
The show won a South African Film and Television Award in 2011.
[4] The show then returned to BBC Brit for a fourth season in 2018.