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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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Searching for belonging: autism part II

admin — Wed, 16 Mar 2016 10:36:50 +0000

This week in the second of a two part series on autism, Special Assignment unpacks a controversial intervention for autistic children based on behavioural modification. Opponents of the so-called Applied Behavioral Analysis Approach (ABA) say the intervention is too intense and robotic, demanding long hours from young children already battling to cope with severe learning […]

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Autism – Making sense of the spectrum

admin — Thu, 10 Mar 2016 10:38:06 +0000

Autism experts talk of a global epidemic. One in every fifty children is now diagnosed with the disorder. A few decades ago this disorder was almost unheard of. Triggered in seemingly normal babies and young children, Autism Spectrum Disorder can render a child unable to talk or understand those around them, sensitive to any external […]

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Madina’s Dream

admin — Fri, 26 Feb 2016 06:22:13 +0000

A recently released 2015/16 Amnesty International Report strongly criticises the South African government, as signatories to the Rome Statute, for failing to arrest and surrender Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir, to the International Criminal Court in June 2015, for his alleged crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide in Darfur. The report refers to this as […]

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Young lives, Wrong Turns

admin — Wed, 17 Feb 2016 12:59:32 +0000

Due to the overwhelming response to our broadcast of Young Lives, Wrong Turns, Special Assignment will rebroadcast this episode which looks at the growing gang problem in various townships in the Vaal Triangle, with a particular focus on Sebokeng. Residents have been plagued with gang violence since 2010. Many gang members are unemployed or impoverished […]

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Desperate Farmers

admin — Wed, 10 Feb 2016 14:01:01 +0000

In this week’s episode of Special Assignment, we bring you the stories of drought stricken farmers in the North West Province who have had to resort to desperate measures to secure the livelihood of their starving animals. This includes resorting to desperate measures such as feeding their remaining livestock the controversial protein-rich chicken manure. Chicken […]

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HIV Stigma: Establishing a Legal Precedent?

admin — Wed, 03 Feb 2016 12:31:39 +0000

HIV testing is 99.9% accurate and although rare, as with any disease, a misdiagnosis can occur. But, what happens when such a misdiagnosis has occurred, can individuals make any legal claims against state or private institutions that facilitate such tests? Georgina Donson was born in the small town of Oudtshoorn and in 1996, at the […]

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Preview: CNN International programme information weeks 7&8

admin — Wed, 03 Feb 2016 07:43:27 +0000

This includes programme information and airtimes for the following programmes on CNN International: Winning Post In February, CNN’s ‘Winning Post’ is joined by British sports presenter and journalist Aly Vance (nee Rowell) as the new host of the network’s monthly flat-racing show (full synopsis below). Make Create Innovate This month, ‘Make Create Innovate’ explores […]

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