Coming up on Carte Blanche‎ on M-Net & M-Net HD [101], Sunday 15 June 2025 at 19:00

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
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Toxic Streaming
He made a living from streaming chaos and violence. Now, he’s behind bars, accused of murder. In May, a young father died in hospital after being beaten outside a Boksburg pub. One of the two men accused of his murder is an influencer 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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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
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