MUST WATCH! Coming up on Carte Blanche: Sunday, 14 July

Cape Town GangsThirteen people dead in just a matter of days – that’s the startling number behind Cape Town’s escalating gang wars. From the Cape flats to Phillipi to Hanover Park – running gun battles on the streets between competing gangs have become the norm, despite the formation of the elite anti-gang unit. The team was established to help police take control of some of the City’s neighbourhoods – but months later, the bodies of innocent victims are still piling up. Carte Blanche investigates.
Producer: Michael DuffettPresenter: Macfarlane Moleli

Baby Hearts in CrisisIn the Eastern Cape, there is just one fully functional catheterization lab to service the entire province. But the machine has been broken since October last year and paediatric patients diagnosed with congenital heart disease are being forced to wait for months for treatment. But despite the government’s promises to Carte Blanche in March this year to have the lab up and running, nothing has changed. Now with no surgical staff for paediatric heart surgery as well – heart patients in the province face a severe crisis.
Producer: Tarryn CrossmanPresenter: Macfarlane Moleli

Illegal Gun Proficiency CertificatesImagine a security guard who doesn’t know how to aim and fire a loaded weapon and firing his gun into the ground instead. In South Africa, it’s illegal to operate a firearm without proper training and the relevant proficiency certificate to prove it. Carte Blanche investigates some firearm training facilities in Mpumalanga selling fraudulent qualifications to people who’ve never been trained to use a weapon.
Producer: Sasha SchwendenweinPresenter: Macfarlane MoleliResearch: Sinethemba NogudeWatch the trailer

Gill Net PoachingDams across the country are fast running out of freshwater fish – the culprit – indiscriminate fishing with gill nets. It’s illegal in South Africa to fish using these nets but that hasn’t stopped poachers from throwing hundreds of metres of these nets across large water bodies, catching everything in their wake. The environmental legislation against this practice is clear, but when it comes to enforcing the law, authorities fall short. Carte Blanche heads out on the water to investigate this trend.
Producer: Stenette GrosskopfPresenter: Claire MawisaWatch the trailer