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On Carte Blanche: Influencer charged with murder for clout

Written by TVSA Team from the blog Carte Blanche Teasers on 13 Jun 2025
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Coming up on Carte Blanche this Sunday 15 June 2025:

Toxic Streaming
 

He made a living from streaming chaos and violence. Now, he's behind bars, accused of murder.

In May, young father Brandon Pretorius died in hospital after being beaten outside a Boksburg pub.

One of the two men accused of his murder is influencer Ruan Beetge, known for his livestreams bragging about fistfights and beatings.

There’s a dark underside to South Africa’s social media as influencers threaten each other, make and receive death threats, and make money doing it.

Has social media fantasy turned into real-world tragedy? 

Producer: Graham Coetzer
Presenter: Lourensa Eckard
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Here's a link to an article about the case:

Brandon Pretorius murder: Investigating officer tells court accused are safer behind bars
 

S’Pitori
 

It was born in the townships around Pretoria - an unofficial language amongst peoples forced together by apartheid’s forced removals. A tool of survival, uniting displaced communities under a new urban culture.

But today, S’Pitori is hitting the big time. Once unpopular and marginalised, it’s becoming the language of South African pop culture and multiculturalism - locally and around the world.

An exploration of the tension between formal education and oral tradition, and a celebration of South African music: this is the story of Pretoria’s lingua franca.

Producer: Matuba Mahlatjie
Presenter: Macfarlane Moleli
 

Metro Centre Mayhem


Hundreds of thousands of building plans lie flung into corners and tumble haphazardly from shelves inside Johannesburg's condemned Metro Centre. 

They’re effectively lost - and that means not only the erasure of priceless heritage, but significant costs and delays for today's property owners and developers. 

As the G20 looms and the City promises renewal, will mismanagement and neglect once again sabotage the promise of Joburg's urban growth?

Producer: Harri Vithi 
Presenter: Masa Kekana
 

Premiere episodes of Carte Blanche air on M-Net on Sundays at 19h00 and are on Catch Up afterwards.

 

Shows in this post: Carte Blanche

Channels in this post: M-Net



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