Carte Blanche This Week (Includes Team Held Up at Gunpoint and Robbed!)
“While filming interviews for our story on the installation of suburb surveillance cameras, our presenter and crew were held at gunpoint and robbed!” says an incredulous Carte Blanche. The Carte Blanche team was filming an insert about tech platform Vumacam’s installation of CCTV cameras across Johannesburg (see above) in the latest fight against crime in […]
“While filming interviews for our story on the installation of suburb surveillance cameras, our presenter and crew were held at gunpoint and robbed!” says an incredulous Carte Blanche.
The Carte Blanche team was filming an insert about tech platform Vumacam’s installation of CCTV cameras across Johannesburg (see above) in the latest fight against crime in South Africa.
Amid spiking crime rates – and with a view to extending Vumacam’s coverage nationwide – the cameras have encountered mixed reactions about the ethics involved. Big Brother or Guardian Angel?
Vumacam – Big Brother or Guardian Angel?
Symptomatic of the need for greater safety, Carte Blanche presenter Masa Kekana and crew were held at gunpoint and robbed while filming this insert.
So while Vumacam raises the spectre of Big Brother looming, Carte Blanche asks how willing South Africans may be to trade privacy for the promise of 24/7 surveillance? (They wouldn’t be the first. In Monaco, a 24-hour video surveillance – which covers the entire surface area of the Principality – makes it one of the safest places to live on earth.) Presenter: Masa Kekana
Symptomatic of a growing problem, our presenter & crew were held at gunpoint & robbed while filming our story on the installation of suburb surveillance cameras in JHB! We ask: Can 24/7 Vumacam street surveillance enhance safety? Join #CarteBlanche this Sunday at 7pm on @MNet. pic.twitter.com/Gud0ZvlOwn
— Carte Blanche (@carteblanchetv) March 22, 2019
This episode of Carte Blanche will be broadcast on Sunday 24 March in South Africa, and is available to stream from Tues 26 March for South Africans abroad. (14-day Free Trial). You can also stream the show live on the DStv Now app from 7pm if you’re in Africa.
Also featured on this week’s broadcast:
Cape Flats Anti-Gang Unit
In the deadly, high-stakes turf war over who controls the criminal underworld, the Cape Flats is a no-go zone. Last year, crime stats showed that of 973 gang-related murders countrywide, 808 were in the Western Cape and only 87 in the Eastern Cape, at second place. Now police have established a new anti-gang unit to combat the violence and hunt down dangerous gangsters. Carte Blanche spends a night on the beat with the unit as it fights to win back some ground in a war that gangs seem to be winning. Presenter: Derek Watts
Hearts at Risk – Eastern Cape Cardiology Crisis
For heart patients in the Eastern Cape who rely on government hospitals, treatment has ground to a standstill after the province’s only catheterisation laboratory broke down in October last year. Unable to perform visual diagnostic imaging and treat abnormalities in the cath lab, more than 40 paediatric patients diagnosed with congenital heart disease have been turned away from state facilities that have nowhere to refer them. As patients face agonising waiting lists, Carte Blanche investigates the unfolding cardiology crisis in the province. Presenter: Devi Sankaree Govender
3D Printed Middle Ear Transplant
From middle ear problems caused by congenital birth defects to infection, trauma or metabolic diseases – hearing loss can have a devastating impact on a person’s quality of life. Now, in a world first, South African Professor Mashudu Tshifularo from the University of Pretoria and a team of 3D printing and design specialists, have pioneered the first artificial middle ear transplant prosthesis. Carte Blanche heads into the theatre to witness this remarkable medical procedure. Presenter: Derek Watts
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WATCH Carte Blanche Trailer, Sun 24 March 2019 (Tues for expats)
Using #3DPrinted bones, Professor Mashudu Tshifularo from @UPTuks and a team of 3D printing specialists have pioneered the world’s first middle ear transplant. @DerekWatts was in theatre to witness this groundbreaking procedure. Join #CarteBlanche this Sunday at 7pm on @MNet. pic.twitter.com/oRnsXo03wd
— Carte Blanche (@carteblanchetv) March 20, 2019
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