Coming up on
Carte Blanche this Sunday (6 September):
Stop the slaughter
It’s called a Driven Hunt. Valuable game - including buck, baboon and warthog - will be driven down a dedicated path by farm workers. Then it’s a free-for-all as hunters atop raised scaffolding take aim at hundreds of animals herded to the slaughter.
Foreign hunters are lining up to take part in the Hunt in Limpopo on Monday and the community who own the land support the hunt for the revenue it will generate. Carte Blanche investigates.
Carte Blanche is running a poll on the subject asking ‘
Should this practice be outlawed?’ You can vote on the Carte Blanche website here:
Have your say. (See the poll on the right hand side)
Producer: Kate Barry
Presenter: Devi Sankaree Govender
Research: Jean-Emile Jammine
Stealing Power
They call themselves the Izinyoka. And, these illegal electricity connectors will stop at almost nothing to provide free electricity to informal settlement homes. They risk life and limb to break into high voltage transformers, city street lights - any source of electricity - to install live electrical leads that often stretch across fields and roads for kilometres.
Carte Blanche reveals the shocking extent to which Izinyoka have tapped into the country’s already unstable power supply.
Producer: Chwayitisa Futshane
Presenter: Derek Watts
Researcher: Sinethemba Nogude
The holiday is over
10 years ago wealthy holidaymakers secured properties along the pristine Eastern Cape coastline in exchange for a bottle of brandy and R200. These plots remain a bargain, but today will set you back anything from R5 000 to R20 000.
Over 30 beach front properties have sprung up on these prime pieces of land in the Umgazana region, despite active legislation that aims to protect this sensitive coastline. Carte Blanche asks: why are these illegal cottage owners not being brought to book?
Producer: Nicky Troll
Presenter: Devi Sankaree Govender
Tanzanite Con
Diamonds may be a girl’s best friend, but tanzanite is the gem open to lucrative scams. For years clever con-artists have managed to reel unsuspecting businessmen into the thick of a clever gemstone sale. The attraction?
Quick and substantial profits. But once victims pay over hundreds of thousands to the syndicate, all they are left with is a handful of worthless stones. Now, with CCTV footage and a PI on the trail, Carte Blanche catches up with conmen.
Producer: Nicky Troll
Presenter: John Webb
Carte Blanche is on M-Net on Sundays at 19h00.