# Dancing with the Stars (South African TV series)

Dancing with the Stars SA is a South African dance competition television series that premiered on 4 February 2018 on M-Net. The show is the South African version of the British reality TV competition Strictly Come Dancing and is based on the Dancing with the Stars franchise. The show is produced by Rapid Blue and co-hosted by Tracey Lange and Chris Jaftha.
The format of the show consists of 6 male and 6 female celebrities paired with a professional dancer. Each couple performs predetermined dances and competes against the others for judges' points and audience votes. The couple receiving the lowest combined total of judges' points and audience votes is eliminated each week until only the champion dance pair remains.

## Cast
### Hosts

* Chris Jaftha
* Tracey Lange

### Judges

* Jason Gilkison
* Tebogo Kgobokoe
* Debbie Turner
* Bryan Watson

### Winner

* 2018: Connell Cruise

## Stars
### Season One

Season One :
| Celebrity | Notability (known for) | Professional Partner | Status |
| Ebenhaezer Dibakwane | Comedian | Nombulelo Hlathi | Eliminated 1st on 18 February 2018 |
| Thembisa Mdoda | Sister of Anele Mdoda, TV presenter & actress | Devon Snell | Eliminated 2nd on 25 February 2018 |
| Odessa Swarts | Sprinter & mother of Wayde van Niekerk | Dylon Daniels | Eliminated 3rd on 4 March 2018 |
| Thando Manana | Former Springbok player | Michelle Oppenshaw | Eliminated 4th on 11 March 2018 |
| Delron Buckley | Former Bafana Bafana footballer | Angelique Allison | Eliminated 5th on 18 March 2018 |
| Juanita de Villiers | Theatre & movie actress | Johan Dippenaar | Eliminated 6th on 25 March 2018 |
| Liesl Laurie | Miss South Africa 2015 | Ryan Hammond | Eliminated 7th on 1 April 2018 |
| QUARTER-FINALS ||||
| Frank Opperman | Actor | Jeanné Swart | Eliminated 8th on 8 April 2018 |
| SEMI-FINALS ||||
| Vanes-Mari du Toit | National netball player | Johannes Radebe | Eliminated 9th on 15 April 2018 |
| FINALS ||||
| Eden Classens | Suidooster actor and model | Ash-Leigh Hunter | Runner-up on 22 April 2018 |
| Zola Nombona | Actress | Tebogo Mashilo | Runner-up on 22 April 2018 |
| Connell Cruise | Singer-Songwriter | Marcella Solimeo | Winner on 22 April 2018 |

## Scoring and voting

Every dance is scored out of 40 by the four Judges (each judge contributing a score out of 10) and these Judge's scores create the official ranking of the contestants for the week. Pre-registered voters cast their vote during the live show for their favorite couple (a maximum of 100 votes on the website platform and 100 votes on the mobile platform; a total of 200 votes per registered voter). The ranking determined by the judges gives each position on the leaderboard assigned points. With 11 contestants the system works as follows; first place is awarded 11 points, second place is awarded 10 points, third place is awarded 9 points and so on until eleventh place which is awarded 1 point. The public vote is tallied at the end of the Live Show and a ranking is determined based on those votes. Once again, this ranking assigns points based on position. With 11 contestants the system works as follows; first position is awarded 11 points, second position is awarded 10 points, third position is awarded 9 points and so on until eleventh position which is awarded 1 point. For each contestant the points earned by the Judge's ranking and points earned by the public votes are added to create a final score and the couple with the lowest combined score is eliminated.

### Scoring charts

| Couple | Place | 1+2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 10 - Quarter-Finals | 10 - Quarter-Finals | 11 - Semi-Finals | 11 - Semi-Finals | 12 - Final | 12 - Final |
| Couple | Place | (30) | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 240 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| Connell & Marcella | 1 | 25 | 29 | 25 | 32 | 33 | 39 | 28 | 33 | 6 | 36 | 34 | 34 | 37 | 40 | 39 |
| Eden & Ash-Leigh | 2 | 24 | 15 | 26 | 30 | 28 | 28 | 25 | 38 | 5 | 27 | 30 | 33 | 38 | 39 | 40 |
| Zola & Tebogo | 2 | 27 | 20 | 28 | 28 | 25 | 34 | N/A | 32 | 4 | 29 | 28 | 40 | 34 | 40 | 39 |
| Vanes-Mari & Johannes | 4 | 26 | 18 | 25 | 22 | 31 | 25 | 23 | 30 | 2 | 38 | 30 | 29 | 32 | | |
| Frank & Jeanné | 5 | 20 | 21 | 18 | 18 | 24 | 23 | 16 | 28 | 1 | 23 | 26 | | | | |
| Liesl & Ryan | 6 | 20 | 18 | 24 | 22 | 28 | 28 | 18 | 27 | 3 | | | | | | |
| Juanita & Johan | 7 | 21 | 21 | 24 | 31 | 35 | 29 | 22 | | | | | | | | |
| Delron & Angelique | 8 | 18 | 17 | 19 | 26 | 27 | 21 | | | | | | | | | |
| Tando & Michelle | 9 | 17 | 20 | 23 | 20 | 21 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Odessa & Dylon | 10 | 20 | 21 | 19 | 19 | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Thembisa & Devomn | 11 | 21 | 21 | 23 | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Ebenhaezer & Nombulelo | 12 | 23 | 15 | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
    Red numbers indicate the lowest score for each week
    Green numbers indicate the highest score for each week
    the couple eliminated that week
    the winning couple
    the runner-up couple

### Average Score Chart

| Rank by average | Place | Couple | Total Points | Number of Dances | Average |
| 1 | 1 | Connell & Marcella | 470 | 15 | 82.8 |
| 2 | 2 | Zola & Tobogo | 408 | 14 | 74.6 |
| 3 | 2 | Eden & Ash-Leigh | 426 | 15 | 73.9 |
| 4 | 7 | Juanita & Johan | 183 | 7 | 68 |
| 5 | 4 | Vanes-Mari & Johannes | 331 | 13 | 67.5 |
| 6 | 6 | Liesl & Ryan | 188 | 9 | 59.4 |
| 7 | 5 | Frank & Jeanné | 218 | 11 | 54.2 |
| 8 | 11 | Thembisa & Devomn | 65 | 3 | 54.2 |
| 9 | 8 | Delron & Angelique | 128 | 6 | 53.3 |
| 10 | 9 | Tando & Michelle | 101 | 5 | 50.5 |
| 11 | 10 | Odessa & Dylon | 79 | 4 | 49.4 |
| 12 | 12 | Ebenhaezer & Nombulelo | 38 | 2 | 47.5 |

## Times and reception

The show airs on M-Net on a Sunday at 17:00 to 19:00 and the Live Results Show takes place after M-Net's flagship Investigative show Carte Blanche from 20:00 to 20:30.