{"id":1646,"date":"2014-09-22T12:24:46","date_gmt":"2014-09-22T11:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buzzsouthafrica.com\/?p=1646"},"modified":"2020-05-21T19:16:01","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T18:16:01","slug":"south-african-soapie-actors-salaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buzzsouthafrica.com\/south-african-soapie-actors-salaries\/","title":{"rendered":"What South African Soapie Actors And Actresses Earn is Unbelievable!"},"content":{"rendered":"
This revelation of what South African soapie actors earn as salaries per week may come as a shock to you. Many of us\u00a0watch a lot of South African soapies from Generations<\/em> to Scandal<\/em> as some of South Africa’s finest actors and actresses take the stage to tell some of the most addictive stories ever but how much do they earn? What keeps them motivated to keep acting? Is it the money, fame opportunity to change the society or just pure passion\u00a0for acting?<\/p>\n In some other countries, acting has become a very lucrative career path that offers a fulfilling financial reward not to mention the unrivaled publicity and celebrity status that would automatically be conferred on you, however, would you say that it is the same for South Africa?<\/p>\n \u2018Soap Operas\u2019 or “soapies” are usually in the form of weaving parallel narratives, each of which is usually driven by a character and offers a widely varying scale of rates which is based on audience research figures that differ very\u00a0significantly across the board.<\/p>\n The entertainment industry is often filled with drama which is usually\u00a0stimulated by various factors; the most common of which is remuneration.\u00a0The recent termination of contracts of 16 actors and actresses on Generations; an\u00a0SABC 1 soapie, that draws in excess of 7 million pairs of eyes to the TV screen daily has not only initiated a lot of mixed reaction but has made open one of the most obscure statistics of\u00a0the industry – earnings and salaries.<\/p>\n