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- The Adventures of Noko Mashaba is a South African animated sociopolitical satire created by a self-taught animator and university dropout for Soweto TV, and YouTube. Intended for any audience, the show is inspired by the American adult animated sitcom South Park and centers around a fictional character – Noko Mashaba – an ordinary guy hailing from the calm streets of Limpopo, who occasionally ventures on extraordinary adventures to unravel mysteries and relive urban legends. On the show Mashaba always finds himself in informative, controversial and attention-grabbing situations. The series was created in early 2013 and premiered on YouTube with one episode called "Noko & the Famous Venda Tree" – an episode about a mythological tree from the deep ends of Venda, South Africa, which supposedly extends men's penises if planted in the right manner. The series first went viral over the internet after the release of the episode called "Noko in High School". The show focuses on current affairs, corruption, celebrity scandals, urban legends, history and random humor. Lekganyane developed the series in 2013 after being obliged to drop out of varsity due to financial difficulties. After a few months he started his own animation company called . The production company that produces the adventures of Noko Mashaba and other cartoon shows such as . An episode of the show called "Noko vs. Izikhothane" was rated as the most watched YouTube video of the year by Google when it revealed the most watched videos of the year in South Africa 2014. In 2015 two of the episodes of the show made their way to Google's Top 10 most viewed YouTube videos in South Africa. The show has made a number of features on a number of South African television shows. In early 2014 the show made its debut TV feature on an ETV show called Against All Odds with Mpho Lakage, which was a profiling interview about the creator , followed by , and Sunday Live on SABC. In 2015 Noko Mashaba won the South African Film, Art, Music & Entertainment award (FAME) for best comedian. In 2016 Rams Comics along with Supa Strikas shared the comic category award of the YouTube Sub-Saharan Africa Creator YouTube awards. (en)
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- Joey Lekganyane (en)
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- The Adventures of Noko Mashaba is a South African animated sociopolitical satire created by a self-taught animator and university dropout for Soweto TV, and YouTube. Intended for any audience, the show is inspired by the American adult animated sitcom South Park and centers around a fictional character – Noko Mashaba – an ordinary guy hailing from the calm streets of Limpopo, who occasionally ventures on extraordinary adventures to unravel mysteries and relive urban legends. On the show Mashaba always finds himself in informative, controversial and attention-grabbing situations. (en)
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