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…
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…
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.…
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…
“Beware the Avalanche (Part 1)” A Special Assignment investigation. There are many myths about ‘indlovu’, the elephant, whose size and majesty make it invincible except to man’s cruelty and greed. In African fables it is the wise ancestral chief; in life, deserving respect; in death,…
“LOLLY TOWN” A SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT INVESTIGATION It’s called a Lolly lounge, or Suiker-huis. It’s a name commonly known in predominantly coloured communities like Eldorado Park and Westbury in Johannesburg - a standard house or flat, usually rented, where young girls are lured in with free…
This week’s episode of Special Assignment exposes the rampant abuse and killing of the already endangered vulture population in South Africa and parts of the continent, as well as Asian countries, in a quest for wealth and success by school children, businessmen, gamblers and other…