{"id":6938,"date":"2018-06-14T17:48:30","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T15:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/?p=6938"},"modified":"2018-06-14T17:48:30","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T15:48:30","slug":"coming-up-on-carte-blanche-17-june-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2018\/06\/14\/coming-up-on-carte-blanche-17-june-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming Up On Carte Blanche &#8211; 17 June 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2681\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/CarteBlanche.jpg?resize=118%2C116\" alt=\"\" width=\"118\" height=\"116\" \/>M-Net &amp; M-Net HD [101], Sunday 17 June 2018 at 19:00 &amp; again on M-Net Plus 1 [901] at 20:00<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>The Hawks: A New Dawn?<\/h3>\n<p>Organised crime and corruption is rampant in South Africa and the Hawks, tasked with targeting criminal syndicates and investigating economic crimes, have been accused of being ineffective. Now with a doctorate in law and more than three decades of service in the police force, General Godfrey Lebeya has been appointed as head of this elite crime-fighting unit.\u00a0 Can the man who was once in the running for the position of Public Protector clean up the rot in one of the most crucial departments of the criminal justice system?<\/p>\n<p>Producer: Este de Klerk<br \/>\nPresenter: Derek Watts<br \/>\nResearcher: Siniketiwe Hlanze<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/carteblanche.dstv.com\/coming-up-watching-like-a-hawk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch the trailer<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Making a Difference in Tygerberg<\/h3>\n<p>Amidst a crippling infrastructure maintenance backlog at Cape Town&#8217;s Tygerberg hospital, the Carte Blanche Making a Difference Trust has stepped in to help the hospital\u2019s youngest patients. In April, the Trust with the help of its generous donors, delivered Tygerberg&#8217;s first dedicated paediatric operating theatre.<\/p>\n<p>In just ten years, the Campaign has raised over R130-million in funds and an estimated R300-million in kind. The funding has been entirely spent on the delivery of 18 hospital projects in 10 hospitals around the country.<\/p>\n<p>Producer: Diana Lucas<br \/>\nPresenter: Derek Watts<\/p>\n<h3>Cash-In-Transit<\/h3>\n<p>A new wave of cash-in-transit heists is gripping the country and armed syndicates carrying AK47s in the suburbs, are running the streets. Fed-up security guards are protesting, demanding government intervention, but with 159 CIT robberies already this year, specialised law enforcement agencies seem helpless to put an end to the violent heists.\u00a0 Carte Blanche investigates why these criminal organisations have become so brazen.<\/p>\n<p>Producer: Nicky Troll<br \/>\nPresenter: Devi Sankaree Govender<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/carteblanche.dstv.com\/cit-heists\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch the trailer<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Stuck in the East\u00a0\u200b<\/h3>\n<p>No job, no work permit and no money to return home \u2013 that\u2019s the nightmare facing 50 South African youths stuck in China. The group, who were individually hired by a dubious recruitment agency to teach English in the East, are now the subject of a criminal investigation after their passports were confiscated because they didn\u2019t have legitimate visas.\u00a0 Their parents are desperate to get them home, but not even the South African Embassy seems to be able to help. Carte Blanche\u00a0investigates.\u200b\u200b<\/p>\n<p>Producer:\u00a0Graham Coetzer<br \/>\nPresenter:\u00a0Derek Watts<\/p>\n<p>Line-ups are subject to change. Stories can be viewed at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.carteblanche.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.carteblanche.co.za<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/carteblanchetv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Carte Blanche<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/search\/latest\/?q=%23carteblanche\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#CarteBlanche<\/a><br \/>\nTwitter:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/carteblanchetv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@carteblanchetv<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?f=tweets&amp;vertical=default&amp;q=%23CarteBlanche\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#CarteBlanche<\/a><br \/>\nInstagram:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/carteblanchetv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@carteblanchetv<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/explore\/tags\/carteblanche\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#CarteBlanche<\/a><br \/>\nWeChat:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/carteblanche.dstv.com\/WeChat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ID: carteblanchetv<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>M-Net &amp; M-Net HD [101], Sunday 17 June 2018 at 19:00 &amp; again on M-Net Plus 1 [901] at 20:00 &nbsp; &nbsp; The Hawks: A New Dawn? Organised crime and corruption is rampant in South Africa and the Hawks, tasked with targeting criminal syndicates and investigating economic crimes, have been accused of being ineffective. Now&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2018\/06\/14\/coming-up-on-carte-blanche-17-june-2018\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Coming Up On Carte Blanche &#8211; 17 June 2018<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[65,21],"class_list":["post-6938","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\/6938","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=6938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}