Coming up on
Carte Blanche this Sunday 6 April 2025:
Deadly Headaches
It’s a specialised procedure pioneered by a renowned surgeon and, for decades, it’s relieved patients of debilitating headache pain. But recently, something has gone very wrong.
Three patients died, allegedly suffering massive brain and spinal cord damage in the wake of the procedure, while others claim it’s caused severe, lasting damage.
What really happened behind closed doors at this Johannesburg clinic? And how does a celebrated specialist become a murder accused?
Producer: Latashia Naidoo
Presenter: Erin Bates
Wanted: Dead
He was a dangerous criminal known for extortion and drug dealing. So it may be no surprise that he died in a hail of police bullets on the side of the N2 near Butterworth in the Eastern Cape earlier this year.
But what about the four private security guards who met their death alongside him?
Police insist it was a shootout with suspects carrying illegal weapons. But family members say the men were innocent. We sift through the evidence to ask: Who is telling the truth?
Producer: Harri Vithi
Presenter: Govan Whittles
Sacred Traces
Animal fat, eggshells and ochre: the materials that formed the centuries-old San rock art scattered throughout Southern Africa.
After thousands of years, many of the paintings have faded. But one artist has dedicated his life to studying, and now recreating, these ancient works of art.
Foraging for materials and reproducing the tools and techniques of long-lost artists, he’s creating a doorway into another time and hoping to catch a glimpse of the spiritual world on the other side of the rock.
Producer: Catherine Rice
Presenter: Erin Bates
Premiere episodes of Carte Blanche air on M-Net on Sundays at 19h00 and are on Catch Up afterwards.