Coming up on Carte Blanche on M-Net & M-Net HD [101], Sunday 23 October 2022 at 19:00.
Sex, Lies & Prison Bars
An unexpected phone call from a stranger throws your life into disarray. An eerily calm voice on the other end of the line demands you hand over a significant amount of cash or risk arrest for a heinous crime you know you didn’t commit. However, the voice doesn’t belong to a police officer but rather an inmate in a maximum-security prison, one of the masterminds of an elaborate extortion scam. It manipulates sex workers into handing over the contact numbers of their less-favoured clients, transformed into unwitting victims by a single phone call. Carte Blanche investigates.
Producer: Nicky Troll
Presenter: Masa Kekana
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Zero Transmission
Eskom’s infrastructure is under attack. In Mpumalanga, landowners near its Emalahleni electricity hub say power lines running through their properties have become the latest target for cable thieves. It’s a significant and unwanted challenge for a utility already struggling to meet electricity demand and generally failing to keep the lights on. The MO is simple: criminal syndicates – possibly operating on insider information – wait for overhead transmission lines to be switched off for maintenance before swooping for their loot. With deployed security and the police apparently powerless to stop it, the landowners are often the last line of defence for infrastructure critical to the supply of power to large parts of Gauteng.
Producer: Anina Peens
Presenter: Masa Kekana
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Muti, Money & Murder
Twenty-nine-year Pontsho Mohlanka was a well-known member of the Orange Farm community in Gauteng. She helped run the local shebeen and was a regular at the nearby spaza shops. Then, in April 2020, police were called to the shebeen during a search for a missing child. The horror they stumbled on would later see Mohlanka arrested on suspicion of murder. Five months later, she was released and within two days police were again investigating a disappearance and multiple murder. Carte Blanche unravels why this unassuming neighbour became a child killer in a chilling story of muti and murder.
Producer: Ntokozo Sindane
Presenter: Claire Mawisa
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The Advertising Golden Age
The dawn of democracy saw a broadening of our creative horizons, especially in the world of advertising. By 1995, big brands and advertising’s brain power were combining in ways unseen in the restrictive apartheid years, defining new ways of reflecting on a changing society. The results were some of the most memorable commercials seen on TV, ones that remain etched in the minds of those old enough to remember them. So, where are those creatives now? In a Carte Blanche “special” investigation lead by the intrepid Derek Watts, we track down the icons behind the Vodacom “Ÿebo Gogo” campaign.
Producer: Sophia Phiripphides
Research: Sasha Schwendenwein
Presenter: Derek Watts
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