Chicken Swindle: Watch Carte Blanche, this Sunday 27 February 2022 at 19:00, only on M-Net
I N V E S T I G A T I O N S
Chicken Swindle
It was marketed as the perfect low-cost franchise opportunity for eager investors. At just over half-a-million rand, you’d have a chance of owning a lucrative Hallal fast food business. Now the financial chickens are coming home to roost for several irate franchisees who say they were sold a pipedream. Carte Blanche investigates a trail of broken promises and empty pockets, uncovering a business model apparently launched on a wing and a prayer.
Producer: Joy Summers| Research: Laura Byrne | Presenter: Bongani Bingwa
R E P O R T A G E
Nahoon’s Nasty Reserve
Buffalo City Municipality in the Eastern Cape is the custodian of one of the province’s most spectacular tourist attractions – the Nahoon Estuary Nature Reserve. With beautiful forests, beaches, natural ponds, and mangroves, this reserve should be a sanctuary for visitors to East London. But, after raising the alarm about raw sewage spilling into this pristine area, nearby residents are trying to force their municipality to fix ageing and broken in infrastructure by approaching the courts.
Producer: Tarryn Crossman | Presenter: Macfarlane Moleli
Claire Mawisa: “When our lives changed forever in 2020 – after COVID-19 was detected in Wuhan, China – bats were first to catch blame. But I wanted to know more than them simply harbouring dangerous diseases that may spill over to humans. So, I decided to go on a deep-cave journey to find out how bats may actually help us prevent the next pandemic.”
Bat’s What We’re Talking About!
For decades, scientists have predicted a highly contagious pandemic would one day ravage the world’s population and crash global financial markets. They didn’t know how it would start, but they knew to follow the clues. Then the COVID-19 pandemic finally proved them right. Now, South African researchers are heading into bat caves in search of crucial scientific data that could help prevent the next pandemic.
Producer: Laura Byrne | Presenter: Claire Mawisa
W I L D L I F E
Wildlife 2.0
When the COVID-19 pandemic almost destroyed economies around the world, the tourism sector wasn’t spared – and neither were wildlife nature reserves. So, one group of intrepid filmmakers hatched a plan to keep their wildlife filming business afloat while still offering a Big Five experience to a global audience unable to leave their homes.
Producer: Sasha Schwendenwein | Presenter: Masa Kekana
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