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Carte Blanche: New Hope for Heroin Addicts in SA, Saving Pangolins, Sewer Zama Zamas and High-Tech Rabbiting

Here’s this week’s extended 90-minute Carte Blanche line-up, available for South Africans in SA on Sunday and for expats from Tuesday by subscribing to Showmax International. Opioid Substitution Therapy Heroin is one of the most addictive drugs in the world and millions of addicts are simply unable to overcome the addiction. In South Africa, heroin rehabilitation […]

By SAPeople Contributor
12-11-17 17:02
in Entertainment

Here’s this week’s extended 90-minute Carte Blanche line-up, available for South Africans in SA on Sunday and for expats from Tuesday by subscribing to Showmax International.

Opioid Substitution Therapy

Heroin is one of the most addictive drugs in the world and millions of addicts are simply unable to overcome the addiction. In South Africa, heroin rehabilitation methods have proven to be a massive failure and up to 93% of addicts relapse. Now a pilot project in Kwa-Zulu-Natal, called Opioid Substitution Therapy, could give users and their families new hope. (Producer: Jacqui Jayamaha Presenter: Devi Sankaree Govender)

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Saving Pangolins

It’s a cute, nocturnal and scaly creature, but few people will ever see one. The pangolin is the most trafficked mammal in the world, fetching up to R150 000 each on the black market. Across Africa, over a million have been removed from the wild over the last decade and South Africa is at the centre of the illegal trade. Carte Blanche goes undercover to infiltrate a dangerous syndicate of smugglers and stop them in their tracks.(Producer: Graham Coetzer Presenter: Claire Mawisa Researcher: Sasha Schwendenwein)

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Sewer Zama Zamas

If you want to know what poverty smells like, you have to go down one of Johannesburg’s sewers. It’s not for the faint-hearted, but it’s the life of destitute sewer zama zamas who brave exposure to chemicals, disease and flooding to find hidden treasure like jewellery, flushed down suburban toilets. Carte Blanche joins two expert sewer zama zamas to find out why they do it. (Producer: Sasha Schwendenwein Presenter: Macfarlane Moleli)

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 High-tech Rabbiting

The riverine rabbit is one of the rarest mammals on the planet, with less than 300 of them remaining. Now a new project involving a specially-trained border collie with a GPS-enabled collar and a state-of-the-art thermal imaging technology is helping to save this endangered animal.  Carte Blanche joins the team working to prevent the total extinction of these elusive creatures. (Producer: Jason Boswell Presenter: Macfarlane Moleli)

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Forensic Future

Around the world, unidentified human remains are sitting at forensic sites, waiting for possible clues to their identities. They are potentially the loved ones of those still living and until now there’s been no way of telling for sure. But real life murder mysteries can now finally be resolved through cutting-edge forensics and massive developments in DNA testing, which work together to quite literally put a face to nameless victims. (This segment, by ABC Australia, will not be available to overseas subscribers.)

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