Carte Blanche this Sunday : Sports Tour Fiasco on M-Net & M-Net HD [101], 8 December 2019 at 19:00 & again on M-Net Plus 1 [901] at 20:00.
Macfarlane Moleli: “Advocate Madonsela broke down the seriousness of State Capture by explaining allegations that foreign nationals had undue influence on the president of a country and influencing the appointment of ministers. If these allegations are proved to be true it is tantamount to treason!”
INFORM > EMPOWER
South African Airways
With bailout after bailout over the years, South African Airways has barely kept afloat. But as government rules out further intervention “because of severe fiscal constraints”, should SAA be grounded? With 11 000 jobs in jeopardy, Carte Blanche asks whether SAA should be cleaned out at the top to clear the way for renegotiating costly contracts, or is privatisation a better way to rejuvenate the airline?
Producer: Sophia Phirippides
Presenter: Devi Sankaree Govender
The Chronicles of Capture Unravelled
It’s been 16 months of gruelling testimony over detailed allegations of State capture. The mechanics of corruption have been laid bare. There’s been jostling over who would be called to account. Sitting down with, among others, Prof. Thuli Madonsela whose work paved the way for the Zondo Commission of Inquiry, Carte Blanche analyses the meaning of the painful revelations before the Commission over some of the country’s most shameful lapses in governance. We ask what has really been accomplished so far, and how the assembled evidence will feed into prosecutions to redeem a nation’s future.
Producer: Julian Sun
Presenter: Macfarlane Moleli
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INVESTIGATE > ACCOUNT
Shattered Dreams: School Sports Tour Cancelled
The educational expedition of a lifetime – that’s what parents thought they were buying their children this December as they signed up and paid for school sport tours to Switzerland, Sri Lanka and Argentina. Since 2014 the operator claims to have managed 105 tours – a one-stop travel shop for planning and executing the logistics of group travel. But Carte Blanche investigates claims that four different tours meant to have taken place over the holidays have just been cancelled at an estimated loss of R3 million, leaving families fuming, devastated and out of pocket.
Producer: Nicky Troll
Presenter: Masa Kekana
REFLECT > REVEAL
Poppie van As’ Italian Adventure
An unexpected friendship between long-distance cyclist Stan Engelbrecht and Poppie van As, a roosterkoek seller from whom he bought sustenance while racing through Laingsburg in the Karoo, has evolved into an epic adventure. Married at thirteen, and divorced two decades later, Poppie van As restarted life with nothing to her name in her hometown. But now her roostekoek stand has made her famous. Carte Blanche meets the unlikely friends from two very different worlds and recounts the adventure that’s turned Poppie into a social media sensation.
Producer: Tarryn Crossman
Presenter: Macfarlane Moleli
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Contemplating Christmas with Coconut Kelz
Comedian Lesego Tlhabi’s alter ego Coconut Kelz applies her wit and insights to unconscious biases and issues that South Africans share as we get in the mood for the festive season and wind down the year that was.
Producer: Carol Albertyn Christie
Presenter: Devi Sankaree Govender
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