Unreported World: Season 2025, Episode 6

2025 - 6: Sex, Power, Money: South Africa's Slay Queens

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.