On this week's
Carte Blanche (27 September 2009):
Casterway
The row over Caster Semenya’s gender tests has raised more questions than answers, not least about the leadership of Athletics South Africa. What seemed to be about the well-being of a teenage athlete at the start, now presents a tangle of lies and intrigue. Administrators, it seems, have unlimited power over the lives of individual athletes. Carte Blanche tries to make sense of it all.
Presenter: Derek Watts
Producer: Ashleigh Hamilton
Journalist: Xoli Matomela
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Crime The Beloved Country
The crime statistics have been released and once again South Africans are left to count score in what seems to have become our national sport. Have things actually improved, or are crooks simply changing tactics? Carte Blanche speaks to the movers and shakers and survivors of another year of crime.
Presenter: Bongani Bingwa
Producer: Bernadette Cook
Journalists: Wynand Grobler & Susan Comrie
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Baboon Matters
For hundreds, probably thousands of years, male baboons in the Cape Peninsula, on reaching adulthood, have left their troops to join others further inland. But urban development has messed with these ancient habits, leaving male baboons little option but to cause havoc in the suburbs. The City of Cape Town’s Baboon Management Team wants them killed. But, as Carte Blanche finds out, not everyone agrees.
Presenter: Annika Larsen
Producer: Hein Ungerer
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CB20: World ClassCarte Blanche’s birthday campaign has delivered again, this time to the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital. A state of the art digital theatre now makes endoscopic surgery on a par with the best in the world. Meet Timothy and Marvin, operated on just weeks ago, whose lives have changed forever.
Presenter: Bongani Bingwa
Producer: Kate Barry
Journalist: Amalia Christoforou