As a follow up to the recent xenophobic attacks in Durban in April this year, Special Assignment goes in search of Vincent Chumba, a Zimbabwean national and one of the victims that we spoke to in April. 25-year old Chumba, a hawker, was attacked and…
June 16, 1976 is a day etched in South African history. A day that turned the tide in South Africa’s liberation struggle. Thousands of Sowetan students marched peacefully to protest the introduction of Afrikaans as a compulsory medium of instruction in schools. The march was…
Each winter in South Africa, thousands of people are affected by shack fires that spread seemingly unchecked from one shack to another, engulfing dozens in a matter of minutes. Burns are one of the major causes of death and injury to South African children. This…
Special Assignment brings you Atomic Africa, an internationally produced documentary by Java Films, which investigates whether nuclear energy is an appropriate response to the continent’s energy crisis, looking at Uganda, Tanzania, the DRC and Niger, as case studies. Companies like French nuclear giant, Areva, lobby…
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.…