TX: Tuesday 16 June at 9pm

Free-to-air channel, e.tv, is launching a local psychic dating show – Your Date With Destiny – a first for South African television. The first episode airs on Tuesday, 16 June at 9pm.

Celebrity TV psychic, Belinda Silbert, will host Your Date With Destiny. In front of a studio audience Belinda will match single candidates who have entered the show. The matched couples will go out on a date and report back in the next episode.

The show will also include other paranormal romantic compatibility techniques such as astrology, numerology, tantric arts tips and psychic tips on love and dating.

The proof of the pudding, however, is in the eating and the programme will follow the fortunes of psychically matched couples and assess the accuracy of Brenda’s psychic powers in matters of love and compatibility.

Di Rosen Productions, an independent production company that has produced numerous television shows, including Bryan Adams Live in Concert and other live multi-camera productions, will produce the show.

Mini Bio on Belinda Silbert

Cape Town-based Belinda Silbert learnt at an early age that her abilities were unique. “I was four years old when I started to shut up. I realised then that not everyone saw colours around people, or could see when someone was going to die.”

Not that she would pass on news of a death foretold or other extremely disturbing news: her aim is healing, not to shock or cause sensation. A trained opera singer who at one stage studied to be a rabbi, Belinda has three children and thus a very full schedule.

As well as giving spiritual readings, she also lectures on tantric sex and healing, angelology, psychic development, Kabbalah, energy transfusion (ETH), meditation and dream science.

“What people want to know varies widely,” says Belinda, “There are people who want to know the meaning of life – everybody wants to know why they are here. They might be at a crossroads. My role is to give some guidance.”

With compatibility questions, Belinda explores the commonality of people’s auras that reflect their strengths, weaknesses, similar interests and values.