Tag: carte blanche

“Is it just me, or have wild animals become the latest “must-have” in our country’s ubiquitous lifestyle estates? Once content with a clubhouse and gym, no high-end gated community can now consider itself worthy of the name without a herd or two of impala or zebra. To each their own, I suppose. But Bali-inspired architecture… Continue reading Coming Up On Carte Blanche – 11 August 2024

“Last week we exposed the inner workings of Cape Town’s extortion rackets, a primitive and often violent money-making scheme bedevilling the city’s glossy nightspots. This week’s exposé is just as chilling, perhaps more so. It takes us into the dark heart of Khayelitsha where even young children can’t escape the bloodlust of money-hungry criminals.” – John Webb,… Continue reading Coming Up On Carte Blanche – 28 July 2024

“I vaguely recall having a few cold ones at Randolf Jorberg’s bright yellow beer hall in Cape Town. Back then, it was an institution on arguably the city’s most famous thoroughfare, Long Street. How sad that it’s come to represent so much pain and uncertainty, a monument to the wanton violence and insatiable greed of Cape… Continue reading Coming Up On Carte Blanche – 21 July 2024

“In a world of pithy catchphrases and acronyms, one above all others is likely to send self-respecting journalists into fevered delirium: SLAPP. It stands for Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation, a legal approach increasingly adopted by people accused of wrongdoing to stifle media freedom. On Sunday we broadcast an important investigation into the death of a… Continue reading Coming Up On Carte Blanche – 14 July 2024

“It’s an uncomfortable truth that, while geography and gender preclude my membership of the Nahoon Beach Grommets, I do meet their strict age limit. It’s a bitter pill, but there is a measure of consolation to be had from knowing a well-deserved retirement and long-overdue appointment with daytime television are within sight. While one can’t… Continue reading Coming Up On Carte Blanche – 7 July 2024

“I consider my two days in Chernobyl among the most surreal of my life. Within hours of arriving, I was being urged to try homemade mushroom soup and locally distilled vodka. I left convinced that, if you plugged me into the national grid, I could power a laptop and small TV. How Russian occupiers later thought… Continue reading Coming Up On Carte Blanche – 30 June 2024