'Don't pay for auditions. Ever.' SABC1's Uzalo starts education campaign to combat South Africa's growing scourge of con-artists luring desperate people to fake auditions.

Don't pay for any audition. Ever. So says South Africa's most-watched TV show, Uzalo on SABC1 that is starting an awareness campaign to combat the growing scourge of con-artists preying on enthralled yet uninformed viewers who continue to fall for fake audition scams and are swindled out of money.

While the growing popularity of locally-produced, serialised weekday dramas across South Africa