Tag: carte blanche

Night Shift A man is rushed into the emergency unit, battling to breath. He urgently needs oxygen but, in his state of confusion, is fighting off the doctors. Moments later, a teenager is wheeled in with multiple stab wounds – earlier left for dead in a pool of water on a freezing night. Battling fatigue… Continue reading Coming Up On Carte Blanche – 17 July 2022

Tavern of Terror As devastated families in the Eastern Cape buried their loved ones this week, the country is still in shock over the 21 young lives lost at a local tavern in East London. While the cause of their deaths remains unconfirmed, one question lingers: why were children as young as 13 out drinking… Continue reading Coming Up On Carte Blanche – 10 July 2022

Fall Through the Cracks A tiny grave in the Klip Road Cemetery in Grassy Park outside Cape Town marks the failure of a system that was set up with the express purpose of detecting and preventing child abuse. So, has the country’s early warning system for child abuse broken down? In a powerful and in-depth… Continue reading Coming Up On Carte Blanche – 3 July 2022

Electricity Hackers Times are tough, cash is tight and many of us are looking for ways of cutting back on living expenses.  Some, though, are even prepared to break the law if it means saving a buck, and electricity it seems is the preferred way to do it. With more tariff hikes on the way… Continue reading Coming Up On Carte Blanche – 26 June 2022

Free State Death Traps The Free State’s roads are disintegrating, becoming death traps rather than important arteries keeping our economy functioning. The situation is so bad that communities are now banding together to try and fix the provincial roads themselves just to avoid further carnage. But it’s not just motorists that have been affected: as… Continue reading Coming Up On Carte Blanche – 19 June 2022

Guptagate: Full Circle The infamous Guptas – a family on the run from the long arm of the law. Now, they could be just months away from extradition to South Africa. It was the scandal that broke a presidency, and rocked a nation to its core, starting with the landing of a private plane at… Continue reading Coming Up On Carte Blanche – 12 June 2022