Anti-Israel protests across South Africa, boycott pickets outside Woolworths stores selling Israeli goods, academic boycotts of Israeli universities, calls to deregister Jewish students at South African universities and an anti-Zionist attack on religious Jewish teenagers at a Johannesburg mall. The efforts to isolate Israel and those…
This week’s Special Assignment brings you a less documented but serious social problem of gangsterism in the Eastern Cape. Our programme titled “Malightas van Sonop” exposes this phenomenon, which according to the South African police, has already claimed 27 lives since 2010. Over 123 cases…
The other is considered by the group as not belonging, as they have been culturally constructed as being fundamentally different in some way." - Dr. Zuleyka Zevallos, sociologist. As news spread two weeks ago of xenophobic attacks against foreigners in Durban, Zimbabwean national Vincent Chumba locked himself inside…
In this week’s episode of Special Assignment, we expose a shocking source of student entertainment: students frequent night clubs in Hillbrow to participate in live sex shows. The area is infamous as Johannesburg’s red light district, a place where you can find almost anything. Its…
In this week’s episode of Special Assignment, we present part two of White & Black: Crimes of Colour, directed by Canadian director Jean-Francois Méan. Méan goes to Tanzania to follow journalist Vicky Ntetema as she investigates murderous attacks against people with albinism. Tanzania has one…
Canadian Director Jean-Francois Mean goes to Tanzania to follow a journalist investigating murderous attacks against people with albinism. Tanzania has one of the highest rates of albinism in the world and, as in many other African countries, people with albinism are considered to be cursed.…
The Inkatha Freedom Party utterly opposes the public broadcaster’s decision to remove news broadcasts in South Africa’s Indigenous languages. SABC News stated that as of April 1st, they will no longer have Afrikaans news or news in any of the Nguni languages. They will replace…
In this weeks’ episode of Special Assignment we bring you an exclusive interview with Rosita Mabuingo, Mozambique’s youngest celebrity. Our producer Frank Ferro goes in search of Rosita - born fifteen years ago this month on top of a tree, above the flood waters of…
“ROAR, YOUNG LIONS ROAR!” tells a story of the young comrades from the dusty, windswept townships of the Cape Flats, who laid down their lives in the 1980s in the struggle for liberation. Some of these youth who survived are unable to live normal lives…
Special Assignment continues its analysis of apartheid assassin and Vlakplaas commander Eugene de Kock’s release on parole after 20 years behind bars. We speak to the Minister of Justice about why some of the victims’ families were not consulted prior to de Kock’s release. We…