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Al Jazeera (DStv 406 / TopTV 401) is becoming the first 24 hour global news channel to produce a brand-new weekly show as an investigate programme and devote a weekly timeslot to a hard-hitting investigative magazine show that will be specifically covering Africa and set out to uncover corruption and expose fraud and crime on the continent.
Africa Investigtes will start on Wednesday 2 November at 23:30 (South African time with several weekly repeats) on Al Jazeera as a groundbreaking new weekly show and a true world first for journalist in Africa.
Africa Investigates - with the first episode (2 November) that will talk to the various journalists who will be working on the show and who will explain the many dangers they face - will aim to uncover everything from corruption, fraud, abuse to child trafficking across the length and breadth of Africa.
The second episode of Africa Investigates on 9 November will focus on the gold fraudsters of Ghana.
Al Jazeera describes Africa Investigates as a ''hard-hitting investigative programme which gives some of Africa's best journalists the opportunity to pursue high-level targets across the continent'' and a show that will ''put wrongdoing and abuse under an international television spotlight''.
