Coming up on
Carte Blanche this Sunday, 1 April 2012:
Prison AssaultSouth African prison authorities have consistently ignored human rights abuses within over-crowded facilities, despite numerous commissions, petitions and inspectorates.
Now the Department of Correctional Services faces what may be the largest damages claim yet instituted against it. It’s all thanks to jailbird Bradley McCallum, who lodged a complaint with the UN Human Rights Committee in Geneva, which rules on civil and political rights.
McCallum, on parole, won the case, which related to a 2005 attack at St Alban’s prison in PE. Carte Blanche finds out if Correctional Services plans to sit up and take note this time.
Producer: Sophia Phirippides
Presenter: Bongani Bingwa
Journalist: Tshediso Sesioana
Harvest of Lies
More than a decade ago South Africa planted its first genetically engineered crops. Today we’re one of the top GM crop producers in the world. So, whether you like it or not, you’re consuming genes from viruses and bacteria. Carte Blanche finds out what’s right or wrong with Frankenstein’s food.
Producer: Nikki Otto
Presenter: Chantal Rutter Dros
Serial ScamstersOne might be forgiven for thinking that an overwhelming number of South Africans make a living out of scamming others. Offers of grand returns on passive opportunities, smarmy sales talk, opening and closing companies willy-nilly and doing a disappearing act with money that doesn’t belong to them. How do they do it and why do we always fall for it? Carte Blanche looks at the books ...
Producer: Bernadette Maguire
Presenter: Devi Sankaree Govender
AliensThere’s a theory that life could be embedded in rocks that are ejected into Space after collisions between planets and solar bodies. If met with ideal conditions on a new planet's surface, the bacteria becomes active and evolution begins. But has this already happened? Carte Blanche speaks to those who say shaking hands with aliens isn’t as far-fetched as it sounds.
Producer: Carol Albertyn Christie
Presenter: Bongani Bingwa
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