Tracking Your Stolen Vehicle
From the mall to the garage right at your doorstep, the hijacking and theft of vehicles is a daily reality for most South Africans and installing a tracking device isn’t a luxury, it’s a necessity. So motorists pay hundreds of Rands to tracking companies to help recover their cars when they’re stolen. But what happens when the exclusive ground and air recovery teams that have been promised to look for your vehicle, are made up of unregistered, unarmed and under-qualified agents? Carte Blanche investigates.
Producer: Nicky Troll
Presenter: Devi Sankaree Govender
Youth Unemployment
It’s been described as a ticking time bomb – millions of young South Africans sitting at home – unemployed. From graduates to matriculants and many more who’ve never completed school, finding a job has become a national crisis. The numbers are startling, some eight million young people may never be employed and it seems that the government has run out of ideas. Carte Blanche analyses how entrepreneurship could be an answer.
Producer: Mart-Marie Faure
Presenter: Macfarlane Moleli
The War Underground
A young couple is found gunned down on the side of a notorious highway. Police have no suspects but there’s a war going on underground – armed gangs of illegal miners operating right under the busy streets of Johannesburg – and they fear the killers could be among them. With access to guns, ammunition and explosives these so-called zama zamas run amok in some of Gauteng’s abandoned mines. It’s a network of organised crime syndicates and authorities seem powerless to stop them. Could this double murder be a case of mistaken identity? Carte Blanche investigates.
Producer: Graham Coetzer
Presenter: Derek Watts
Samantha Wade
Abused and stalked, Samantha Wade turned to police to remove her ex-fiance’s weapons. The authorities turned her away, dismissing her complaint as a domestic spat that would pass by morning. But just hours later her abuser followed and shot her at close range, in the face, with exploding hollow point bullets. He left her for dead in her car by the side of the road in peak morning traffic. Carte Blanche recounts the remarkable series of responses by medics nearby that meant Wade lived to tell her story.
Producer: Sophia Phirippides
Presenter: Masa Kekana
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