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CELEBRATING VULTURE CULTURE

admin — Sat, 24 Apr 2021 11:07:30 +0000

A classic symbol of death, and synonymous with grim foreboding events, movies and books are often used to illustrate vultures as gloomy and villainous creatures. Some cultures even practice sky burials, which link vultures directly to the natural cremation of loved ones, and in other cultures it is frowned upon to even mention vultures in […]

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Download My Hero is You, Storybook for Children on COVID-19

admin — Thu, 09 Apr 2020 06:51:10 +0000

Children’s story book released to help children and young people cope with COVID-19 GENEVA, 9 April 2020 – A new story book that aims to help children understand and come to terms with COVID-19 has been produced by a collaboration of more than 50 organizations working in the humanitarian sector, including the World Health Organization, […]

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World Health Organization announces Health for All Film Festival

admin — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 10:53:07 +0000

WHO announces Health for All Film Festival shortlist and jury composition 26 March, 2020 — In an extraordinary demonstration of creative energy and enthusiasm for telling public health stories, the first ever Health for All Film Festival organized by the World Health Organization, has attracted nearly 1300 short film submissions — both amateur and professional […]

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RRA on COVID-19 Released

admin — Sun, 15 Mar 2020 05:41:34 +0000

The UE-CDC released a new RRA (no 6) on Covid-19 (Novel coronavirus disease 2019) Summary extracted from the RRA: On 31 December 2019, a cluster of pneumonia cases of unknown aetiology was reported in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. On 9 January 2020, China CDC reported a novel coronavirus as the causative agent of this outbreak, […]

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National Arts Festival 28 June to 8 July in Grahamstown

admin — Wed, 25 Apr 2018 09:36:19 +0000

Amazing ride ahead: the 2018 National Arts Festival’s Main Programme revealed The line-up for this year’s National Arts Festival Main Programme extends an invitation to audiences to join a thrilling journey that travels through the established and familiar to brand-new, uncharted creative territories. Now in its 44th year, the Festival will run from 28 June […]

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Deadly Decisions A Special Assignment Production

admin — Mon, 04 Sep 2017 10:47:25 +0000

This week Special Assignment has decided to re-broadcast the multiple-award winning documentary Deadly Decisions, which has recently scooped three Diageo Responsible Drinking Awards for Best Broadcast, Best up and coming and Journalist of the Year. The documentary, produced by Cleopatra Jones, looks at the impact that drunk driving has on victims and their families. It […]

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FUCK WHITE PEOPLE IS ART, COURT RULING

admin — Wed, 05 Jul 2017 05:32:07 +0000

The landmark court battle between the Cape Party and the Iziko South African National Gallery over the controversial ‘Fuck White People’ exhibit has come to an end. Chief Magistrate DM Thulare ruled that the poster was not in contravention of South Africa’s hate speech laws, and that it was an expression of art. (Read or […]

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DISMANTLING VERWOERD’s SOUTH AFRICA – PART 2

admin — Tue, 08 Nov 2016 10:47:11 +0000

This year marks fifty years since the assassination of South African Prime Minister, Hendrik Verwoerd, who is regarded as the architect of Apartheid. Last week’s part one of this series on the legacy of Verwoerd we highlighted issues around race identity and racial tensions in South Africa half a century after Verwoerd’s death. In this […]

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Medical Aid Scam

admin — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 13:22:03 +0000

According to healthcare funders, medical aid fraud is one of the leading crimes in South Africa. It is estimated at between nine and 19 billion rand a year, money which could have been better spent on providing quality health care for all. Special Assignment exposes a series of bogus surgeries operated by a syndicate of […]

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To Die For

admin — Wed, 28 Sep 2016 06:21:29 +0000

In Zulu, great men are called iNkakha – a named derived from the pangolin. In Tsonga, it is called the Khwara – the trait of toughness is associated with it. In Afrikaans it is called the Ietermagog because of its habit of eating insects. The pangolin is the most poached mammal on earth and could […]

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Spieners (Part 1)

admin — Tue, 20 Sep 2016 13:27:31 +0000

It’s every motorist’s worst fear – being held up at gunpoint and hijacked or having their car stolen. According to police crime statistics, the past four years has seen an upwards trajectory in car hijackings. The country’s hotspots for this crime are Johannesburg, followed closely by Durban. This week, Special Assignment speaks to families of […]

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Empty Bottles, Shattered Lives

admin — Wed, 07 Sep 2016 11:39:50 +0000

This week Special Assignment celebrates its recent achievement of scooping two awards at the 2016 Diageo Responsible Drinking Awards for “Empty Bottles – Shattered Lives.” Producer Cleopatra Jones, won in the Best Broadcast category and the overall Journalist of the Year Award. This week’s broadcast is a repeat of the programme that profiled the stories […]

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War on Women

admin — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 11:46:35 +0000

“War on Women” tells of the alarmingly high rate of rape in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The country has since the mid-1990s been involved in various outbreaks of civil war. Rape has become a way of life for many soldiers. It is used as a tool for waging war and is perpetrated against […]

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Who Is To Be Blamed

admin — Tue, 23 Aug 2016 14:22:57 +0000

Women’s Month commemoration In this week’s episode of Special Assignment, Special Assignment tracks down and speaks three of the first group of eight female students who fled the country in July 1976. They are some of our lesser known struggle heroines, but who worked behind the scenes to bring down apartheid. 1976 was a turning […]

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Love Our Elderly

admin — Wed, 17 Aug 2016 11:33:35 +0000

In “LOVE OUR ELDERLY’’ we uncover cases at Middelburg State Hospital in Mpumalanga, where elderly patients are admitted for hip fractures and die a few months later. Families of the deceased and other stakeholders believe the elderly patients died due to gross medical neglect. Bets Claasen was 79-years old and Kashane Shabango, 83-years old, reportedly […]

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State of Limbo

admin — Wed, 27 Jul 2016 11:32:33 +0000

“…I was told at home affairs that if I die and my ID is still blocked my family will not be able to apply for a death certificate.” Samson Ndhlovu, father of three. An increasing number of South Africans’ ID’s have been blocked by Home Affairs for various reasons. Experts say blocking a person’s […]

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SAUK versaak toenemend sy rol as onpartydige openbare uitsaaier

admin — Mon, 27 Jun 2016 13:20:49 +0000

Die VF Plus betreur die gebeure by die SAUK waar personeellede vervolg word weens hul teenkanting teen sensuur en beskou die situasie as so ernstig dat die parlementêre portefeuljekomitee gevra gaan word om in te gryp, sê dr. Pieter Mulder, leier van die VF Plus. Die bedanking van Jimi Matthews, waarnemende groephoof van die SAUK, […]

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Dodgy Doctors Part II

admin — Fri, 24 Jun 2016 13:13:04 +0000

In September 2014, Special Assignment exposed an illegal abortion clinic of Dr. William Mogaila at Lister Building in the Johannesburg inner city. Our investigation found that not only were the abortions conducted illegally beyond the regulated six months period, the people employed at his facilities were illegally posing as qualified medical practitioners. We established that […]

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Tender Sharks

admin — Fri, 03 Jun 2016 08:39:48 +0000

This week’s Special Assignment looks at scam syndicates that approach unsuspecting people on the supplier databases of various government departments and pretend to be the respective government departments. The scammers then instruct these suppliers to send three quotes for jobs under a million rand to the ‘department.’ The unsuspecting supplier concedes, the quotes are accepted […]

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Students and the Vice: The Update

admin — Fri, 27 May 2016 08:19:03 +0000

Last year, Special Assignment, exposed a shocking source of student entertainment – university students frequenting night clubs in Hillbrow to participate in live sex shows. Hillbrow is infamous as Johannesburg’s red light district, a place where you can find almost anything. Our investigation revealed that there were many such places in Hillbrow, licensed as bars […]

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Common Ground

admin — Fri, 20 May 2016 13:20:13 +0000

A Big Fish Production ‘Illegal’ mining is in the spotlight once again. This week’s episode of Special Assignment illuminates the issue with a revealing documentary that explores the underlying complexities of the unregulated side of gold mining, borne out of perpetual unemployment and a shrinking commercial mining industry. Common Ground investigates the intrinsic dynamics of […]

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By Their Fruits Part 2

admin — Thu, 05 May 2016 08:28:01 +0000

In October 2015 Special Assignment broadcast a documentary titled By their Fruits, the first part of an ongoing investigation into the government’s land reform policies. We focused on Nirwanda – a De Doorns grape farm, nestled in the Western Cape’s Hex River Valley. The farm is a microcosm of some of the problems experienced in […]

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Indians Can’t Fly

admin — Tue, 19 Apr 2016 13:53:12 +0000

In 1971, 29-year-old Ahmed Timol, a Roodepoort teacher and anti-apartheid activist fell from the 10th floor of the security police building in Johannesburg. The security police soon coined the phrase ‘Indians can’t Fly’. A police inquest concluded that Timol committed suicide while under interrogation, but questions remain whether he may have been pushed, or tortured […]

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Bare Witness

admin — Fri, 15 Apr 2016 09:21:05 +0000

This week Special Assignment looks at South Africa’s highly covert Witness Protection Programme; designed to protect witnesses whose lives may be at risk because the evidence they supply in court can lead to the convictions of dangerous criminals. David Bruce, an independent researcher in policing, crime and criminal justice, says that witnesses are particularly at […]

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People Live Here

admin — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 09:02:59 +0000

n this week’s episode of Special Assignment we visit Lapland, one of the largest informal settlements in Gauteng, situated a few metres from Eldoradopark and Pimville in the south of Johannesburg. The shocking conditions that the poorest of the poor are living in in present day South Africa constitutes a human rights tragedy wherein up […]

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