Thursday, November 8, 2012

Programming note: Carte Blanche this Sunday on M-Net tackles Eskom and the massive tariff increase the poorly managed power company wants.

Carte Blanche this Sunday on M-Net at 19:00 will be taking Eskom to task and look at the impact of the massive 16% tarrif increase the poorly managed and inefficient power company wants to impose on the South African public.

Devi Sankaree Govender is the presenter of the Eskom story with Bernadette Cook as producer and Chwayitsa Futshane as the journalist.

Last year, in the hope of kick-starting an agriculture revolution, the Congo-Brazzaville government offered disillusioned South African farmers long leases on large parts of land in the remote south-west of that country. One of those farmers who took up the challenge is the former Recce and Angolan prisoner-of-war Wynand du Toit who says he's found a home.

Carte Blanche joined what has become a very organised migration of South Africans. Derek Watts travelled to the Congo-Brazzaville with producers Graham Coetzer and Mandy Jacobson for this fascinating story.

Sunday's Carte Blanche will also be looking at the hundreds of letters which arrive in Israel daily addressed to God, Mary Mother of Jesus and how these letters are treated by postal workers in Jerusalem and the workers who deliver them. The always outstanding veteran TV woman Paula Slier is the producer of this insert.