{"id":14020,"date":"2022-01-20T15:22:14","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T13:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/?p=14020"},"modified":"2022-01-20T15:22:15","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T13:22:15","slug":"coming-up-on-carte-blanche-23-january-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2022\/01\/20\/coming-up-on-carte-blanche-23-january-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming Up On Carte Blanche – 23 January 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I N V E S T I G A T I O N S
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Masa\u00a0Kekana:\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cWhen you send your loved one to a psychiatric hospital for much-needed help, you do so out of love and deep concern. The last thing you would expect is that your vulnerable loved one could be harmed \u2013 or worse, murdered\u2026\u201d<\/em>
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Valkenberg Murder Mystery<\/strong>
What happened in the final days and hours of Martin Kennedy\u2019s life? A fit and physically strong young man, Kennedy suffered a psychiatric breakdown and was admitted to a specialised psychiatric hospital in Cape Town. Within weeks of his hospitalisation, Kennedy was dead \u2013 allegedly at the hands of a fellow patient. But why has the family been closed out of the ongoing investigation?\u00a0
Producer: Liz Fish | Presenter: Masa Kekana<\/strong>
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Trick or Treat?<\/strong>
She appears on the frontlines as the champion of several underdog causes.\u00a0From assisting drought-stricken farmers, to protesting for human rights \u2013 she uses highly charged campaigns to entice her dedicated followers to open their hearts and their wallets. Now, Carte Blanche investigates claims that Debbie Els is in fact a serial opportunist, milking the limelight and people’s good intentions for her own personal gain.
Producer: Stenette Grosskopf | Presenter: Derek Watts<\/strong>
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T A S T E\u00a0\u00a0 S E N S A T I O N
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Simply Ginius!<\/strong>
Versatile, affordable and available in a dazzling array of gemlike colours, gin tops the growing craft spirits movement as the new \u201cit\u201d drink. Increasingly, brands are slugging it out to make it big in an influencer-driven industry. And they don\u2019t come much bigger than elephants and their equally impressive dung.\u00a0 Carte Blanche joins the forage for the unconventional main ingredient in a proudly South African export product.
Producer: Ntokozo Sindane | Presenter: Claire Mawisa<\/strong>
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E X P L O R A T I O N S
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Born Small<\/strong>
Born with Achondroplasia, a type of dwarfism, Casper is an otherwise happy baby. Every day, he\u2019s injected with a drug that could change his life… Since birth, he\u2019s been part of a global clinical trial of a drug that might boost growth in children born with dwarfism. Dateline Australia explores the controversy that’s erupted around the trial that has the short stature community deeply divided.\u00a0
Producer: Dateline, SBS Australia<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I N V E S T I G A T I O N S\u00a0\u00a0Masa\u00a0Kekana:\u00a0\u201cWhen you send your loved one to a psychiatric hospital for much-needed help, you do so out of love and deep concern. The last thing you would expect is that your vulnerable loved one could be harmed \u2013 or worse, murdered\u2026\u201d\u00a0Valkenberg Murder… Continue reading Coming Up On Carte Blanche – 23 January 2022<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[65,21],"class_list":["post-14020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television","tag-carte-blanche","tag-mnet","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}