Unreported World Season 2025 Episode 6 - Sex, Power, Money: South Africa's Slay Queens

Airdate: 2025-Oct-24

Episode summary:

How a controversial new generation of young women known as slay queens are monetising South Africa's dating culture. Slay queens flaunt luxury lifestyles online funded by wealthy 'blessers' - inspiring both admiration and anger. As Symeon Brown reports, to their followers, they're glamorous entrepreneurs breaking free from poverty and oppression. To their critics, they're dangerous gold diggers who blur the lines between dating, sex work - and scams.

About Unreported World series:

Unreported World is a foreign affairs programme produced by Quicksilver Media Productions and broadcast by Channel 4 in the United Kingdom. Over th...Show more >