Big Brother Mzansi Axed From Cheaper DSTV Packages, Adds 2 Housemates

by PH February 1, 2022, 3:36 pm

Lawrence Maleka is the host of the new season of Big Brother Mzansi

The hashtag #BringBackChannel198 started trending on Monday on social media after MultiChoice took away the unencoded Big Brother pop-up channel from DStv Family and DStv Access subscribers who were given access to the channel since the 5th season of the localised Banijay format reality show started on 23 January.

Big Brother Mzansi as a pop-up channel with daily and weekly highlights on the Mzansi Magic (DStv 161) channel and is now only available to DStv Premium, DStv Compact Plus and DStv Compact subscribers.

“From the onset, we communicated that Big Brother Mzansi would be available exclusively on DStv Compact, DStv Compact Plus and DStv Premium,” MultiChoice told Channel24 in response to a media query.

In line with accepted business practice, and as we have done for select content in the past, we opened up channel 198 to all our customers in Southern Africa to allow for sampling of the content for a limited period.

Many DStv subscribers didn’t get that message and are upset that they’ve now been blocked from continuing to watch the Big Brother Mzansi content they’ve had access to.

New housemates

Following the abrupt exit of Keamogetswe Motlhale, known as “QV”, last week, just 48 hours after the debut of Big Brother Mzansi, Red Pepper Pictures and Mzansi Magic added two new housemates on Sunday night instead of a first eviction.

The 27-year of Nthabii is a student-athlete from Pretoria, and 25-year old Vyno Miller is a musician from Midrand.