Coming up on Carte Blanche
On M-Net & M-Net HD [101], Sunday 27 January 2019 at 19:00 & again on M-Net Plus 1 [901] at 20:00
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Zim Shuts Down
A mere seven months after promising to put Zimbabwe on a new path to growth and prosperity, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has dealt citizens a shocking blow by raising the fuel price by 150% and standing by while his state security minister shuts down the country’s internet – a move that the country’s highest court has ruled illegal. Inflation has spiked to the highest levels ever and a vicious security services clampdown has left a dozen people dead. Carte Blanche asks how Zimbabwe could be pulled back from the brink.
Producer: Ntokozo Miya
Presenter: Derek Watts
Coal Theft
It used to be that some commodities just weren’t worth stealing but the theft of coal has now become highly organised and lucrative. Opportunistic criminals in Mpumalanga move in on transport company drivers to help them steal the coal – while the unsuspecting owners meant to receive the coal are unaware and run huge losses that they can’t account for. Some coal-fired power stations possibly pay twice for the coal they need to keep going – and it’s part of the reason why electricity costs keep soaring. Carte Blanche investigates.
Producer: Nicky Troll
Presenter: Macfarlane Moleli
SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: Antibiotic Alert
Around the world millions of prescriptions for fluoroquinolone antibiotics are written every day when this class of drugs should only be a last resort for serious bacterial infections where no other alternative will work. Strenuous warnings from the US Food and Drug Administration, the European Medicines Agency and South African Health Products Regulatory Authority have now been slapped on this drug as reports of devastating side-effects escalate. Consumer activist Erin Brokovich has even lent her name to a patient class action. Carte Blanche investigates the baffling, painful and long-term side-effects of fluoroquinolones.
Producer: Joy Summers
Presenter: Derek Watts
Researcher: Laura Byrne
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