Coming up on
3rd Degree this Tuesday (26 April, 2011):
Episode title: Service Delivery
Broadcast date: Tuesday, 26 April 2011.
Teaser ...Service delivery protests have become endemic in South Africa.
At the heart of many of these demonstrations is anger at poverty, corruption, lack of jobs and basic services.
3rd Degree talks to two residents of Kgapane near Tzaneen in Limpopo.
They were both overjoyed when their local municipality announced plans to improve the roads.
This joy soon turned to despair as the shoddy workmanship of the contractors left them worse off than they were before. When it rains their homes flood - at night the young mother has to wake her children and put them on the table, to stop them getting wet.
3rd degree asks: is democracy nothing but false hope for the poor?
3rd Degree is on e.tv on Tuesdays at 21h30.