SABC2 Airings

[Dragon Ball Ireland]

As Canada, Australia and New Zealand got threads for their main channels where English dubbed Dragon Ball aired I think its time for a thread about another underdocumented channel: South Africa's own SABC2.

Dragon Ball Z : Debut was June 3, 2002 with the Funimation dub weekdays at 5pm and its original run lasted until late 2004 or early 2005. In early 2004 Dragon Ball Z had reruns at 6am on Saturdays. Dragon Ball Z may have aired on the SABC Tube kids block. Reruns were Saturday mornings. The show returned to SABC2 between 2009 and 2011 before being replaced by Dragon Ball Z Kai.
Dragon Ball : First aired January 14, 2004, also with the Funimation dub. It has been said Dragon Ball returned to the channel around 2008-2009.
Dragon Ball GT : Premiered January 3, 2005 and also aired with the Funimation dub. Dragon Ball GT aired as part of the SABC Tube kids block. Second run took place from 2015 to 2016 after Dragon Ball Kai left the air. Like Dragon Ball Z, Dragon Ball GT had reruns on Saturdays in 4 episode batches.
Dragon Ball Kai : Replaced Dragon Ball Z in early 2012 and aired until December of that year using the Nicktoons cut of the Funimation dub. Reruns followed in 2013 on Saturday mornings in batches of 4 episodes. At the time Kai was mislabelled as "Dragon Ball Z". The Final Chapters first aired between December 2019 and August 2020.
Dragon Ball Super : Premiered March 4, 2022 at 5pm.

As always corrections and additions are welcome. If you watched any Dragon Ball shows on SABC2 feel free to share your stories.

Hopefully I'll soon have dates for Dragon Ball Z's second run, Dragon Ball Kai's debut and maybe Dragon Ball GT's second run.

I'd like to give thanks to:

• Tian for the inspiration for this thread.
• NitroEX and FruPunRounin for information regarding the South African broadcasts.
• The National Library of South Africa for locating the earliest mentions of the various Dragon Ball series from TV listings in the Cape Times.