M-Net & M-Net HD [101], Sunday 23 September 2018 at 19:00 & again on M-Net Plus 1 [901] at 20:00
Please note this is a 90-minute extended broadcast
Inside Facebook
Hate speech, pornography, child abuse and self-harm – we’ve all been exposed to these on social platforms. But how does one of the world’s most influential social media staples, Facebook, decide what content is allowed and what must be taken down? This in-depth investigation delves into the secretive world of the people who make these controversial decisions, how these choices are made and the far-reaching impact of such judgements that are made for users.
Producer: Journeyman
Prescribed Minimum Benefits
PMBs were designed by government to ensure all medical aid members get access to basic care, no matter what plan they’re on. Implemented in 2000, a list of 270 acute, 25 chronic, and some emergency conditions have to be paid from medical schemes’ general risk pools. Instead, some medical aids force members to pay from their own pockets, using up their savings before the year is out. Amid soaring health costs, Carte Blanche investigates the failure of PMBs to help the sickest members of medical aid schemes.
Producer: Este de Klerk
Presenter: Devi Sankaree Govender
Researcher: Laura Byrne
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Hangberg on Edge
Missing and presumed dead, small scale fisherman Durick van Blerk disappeared overboard after a confrontation with anti-poaching police patrol in August. For generations, fishers like Van Blerk, from Hangberg in Hout Bay, have relied on the sea to put food on the table but a decade of bureaucratic bungling withheld fishing permits and forced them to turn to poaching. Carte Blanche tracks the deadly events that sparked community protests, leading the Independent Police Investigative Directorate to launch an inquiry into police action.
Producer: Annalise Lubbe
Presenter: Macfarlane Moleli
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