On
Carte Blanche this Sunday (18 April, 2010):
Leadership, what leadership?The past fortnight has seen South Africa move to the brink and back. Julius Malema’s utterances and Eugene Terre’Blanche’s murder were added to a bubbling cauldron. Terreblanche’s funeral has come and gone and back-chatting Julius has been rapped over the knuckles. But do we have the leadership to deal with a similar situation in future? Or is there a vacuum waiting to be filled by whoever shouts the loudest? Carte Blanche analyses a crisis averted.
Presenter: Bongani Bingwa
Producer: Joy Summers
Journalists: Tshediso Sesioana & Susan Comrie
King Shaka Gets WingsHere was a leader, said to have great vision and revolutionary ideas. That was 200 years ago, but he’s about to be further immortalised. The King Shaka International Airport is set for take-off while the old Durban airport will be decommissioned after the World Cup.
It’s been described as an extravagant waste, particularly because of increased fuel transport costs. But there are good aspects to the completion of South Africa’s third international airport, just in time for the football tourists. Carte Blanche gets on board.
Presenter: Derek Watts
Producer: Diana Lucas
EMS 2010The recent death in a car crash of the deputy health minister, responsible for 2010 health planning, has alarmed those aware of the dire state of our emergency medical services. The problem is particularly pronounced in remote cities like Nelspruit, Port Elizabeth and Polokwane, with huge staff shortages and a lack of basic equipment. Carte Blanche goes on call.
Presenter: Devi Sankaree Govender
Producer: Eugene Botha
MadagascarAbout 70% of animal species on the island of Madagascar exist nowhere else on the globe, so preservation of primates found there is of critical importance. But 90% of Madagascar’s forests have been lost to agriculture and commercial logging, endangering some of the world’s most precious creatures. Carte Blanche goes in search of one of the rarest mammals on earth, the Silky Sifaka lemur.
Producer: Neil Shaw
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