“I can guess at the instinctive response of our viewers to our story on the devastation in parts of the iSimangaliso Wetland Park. And, in truth, their outrage will be entirely appropriate. However, it’s the intention of the piece to enlighten everyone to the myriad and deep-rooted issues that give rise to local resentment and lead to inevitable lawlessness.” – John Webb, Executive Producer
Fever Trees Falling
Inside the country’s first World Heritage Site, one of our most beautiful landscapes is being deliberately destroyed. Fever trees felled, game fences cut, and land cleared for agriculture. This isn’t random vandalism, it’s allegedly part of a well-organised campaign against the iSimangaliso Wetland Park Authority. iSimangaliso was meant to demonstrate that conservation can go hand-in-hand with community development, but some say the promises of opportunity never materialised. Now, is a decades-old political battle over land, money and power coming to a head?
Producer: Catherine Rice | Presenter: Macfarlane Moleli
Illicit Trade: Poison
A popular pesticide is sold cheaply on the streets, with devastating consequences. Terbufos is an agricultural pesticide, but it’s readily available alongside ordinary household supplies at street markets. Yet a fraction of a gram will kill an adult, and it’s been linked to the tragic deaths of numerous children. We go undercover to trace the supply chain from source to outlet and ask: why is an agricultural chemical making its way so easily into homes?
Producer: Ogilvy | Presenter: Govan Whittles
Trail of Death
Kempton Park is a place people pass through every day to work, to shop, to run… But something has changed. Nine women, brutally murdered; nine grieving families desperate for answers. As police search for clues to identify a perpetrator or perpetrators unknown, and a community tries to make sense of what’s happening in their midst, a chilling question dominates: could a serial killer be at work on Joburg’s East Rand?
Producers: Sinethemba Nogude & Latashia Naidoo | Presenter: Macfarlane Moleli
MISSED THESE MOMENTS?
At Least Half are Spiking
This fuel seller alleges they make around R200,000 profit per tanker when they mix paraffin with diesel. They fill multiple tankers per day…
Join the Criminal Club
While criminals are making bigger profits, South Africans are losing R4.6 billion in tax to illicit fuel every year. And the best way sellers are beating the system is by mixing or spiking diesel with cheap paraffin.
The Whistleblower: Do the Right Thing
After blowing the whistle on multibillion-rand COJ contracts, Sarika Lakraj-Naidoo was fired, dragged to court, and suffered in her personal life. But she would do it again.
Roelf Meyer: Quite Qualified
Another hot potato for Roelf Meyer? There are over 120,000 South Africans living in America. Around 10% of them have been granted refugee status by the Trump administration in the last two years.
NSFAS: Students Pushed to Extremes
This student, fearing he’d be targeted for speaking out against NSFAS, says many students resort to extreme measures to make ends meet.
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