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Since 2022, I have been working for Carte Blanche, on M-Net, DSTV, on a story-to-story basis, producing video journalism for broadcast on their iconic Sunday night show. Below are some of the stories I have produced - this page is still work in progress!

2025

For Carte Blanche: A Refinery sold for a Rand – with a Legacy that will cost Billions (to be broadcast 28 September 2025)

(An investigation into why the South African government put a broken oil refinery for a rand, and allowed oil giants BP and Shell to walk away)

For Carte Blanche: Special Forces in the Dock

(A follow up to an earlier story of the murder of a Hawks Investigator while he was investigating the mysterious kidnapping of an Ethiopian businessman, after twelves Special Forces soldiers were charged)

For Carte Blanche: Murder in Prison – the death of Quinton Fortuin

(An investigation into the suspicious death of a prisoner and gang member in Goodwood Prison) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLdY9-gMSUU

For Carte Blanche: Mayday – Air Traffic Navigations Services in Crisis

(An investigation into the crisis at ATNS which puts air flight at risk)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRtfKQqG0gI

For Carte Blanche: Contraception Question https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1454689058840892

(An investigation into why so many women who were long-term users of Depo-Provera contraception ended up suffering from Sphenoid Wing Meningiomas )

For Carte Blanche: Dodgy Tenders and the Political Influencers

( An investigation into how anonymous political influencers were trying to undermine a probe into the IDT)

https://x.com/carteblanchetv/status/1886113440487338412/photo/1

2024

For Carte Blanche/M-Net: 30 Years of Democracy – South Africa as our home

(A 52 minute documentary which taps into the question: How do we feel thirty years after the first democratic election about South Africa as our home – canvassing unique South Africans across five provinces, broadcast on the 28th of April 2024) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTtunm6pnug

For Carte Blanche: MK Party -  Fact or Fiction

(An investigation into allegations of electoral fraud by the MK Party)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ukk_NDBbS1w

For Carte Blanche: The Aboriginal Nation

(An investigation into a shadowy whatsapp cult run by an Empress who has claims she is ruler and spiritual leader of the coloured people in South Africa, who she calls the Aboriginal Nation)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uq1AsKUqgRQ

For Carte Blanche: ANC Loses its Grip

(The 2024 elections signal the loss of majority power for the ANC)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hGl0moe8QA

For Carte Blanche: The GNU – the beginning

(Shortly after the formation of the GNU, a story describing how the coalition was born out of political need)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq--rWiCL-E

For Carte Blanche: Budget Cuts  - Canary in the Coalmine

(An investigation into how deep budget cuts were causing the loss of frontline public servants, in order to sustain a national budget undermined by a huge public wage bill)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3wlDmQYaLI

For Carte Blanche: Botmaskop Estate. Scar on the Mountain

(An investigation into a controversial luxury housing estate on the edges of Stellenbosch, which appeared to lack a valid environmental assessment permit, as it loses the confidence of locals)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVDI2PT172k

2023

For Carte Blanche:  SANDF Torture Squad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNWSAkGFR9U

(An investigation into how the murder of a Hawks Investigator was linked back to a group of SANDF soldiers, revealing the rot at the heart of the military)

For Carte Blanche: Cooking the Books https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBMY265-wgo

(An investigation into a rogue accountant who abused the bank accounts of her client, and seemed to get away impunity due to a lack of interest on the side of regulators and the SAPS.)

For Carte Blanche: Taxi Strike  - the aftermath

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXlzcNnRgew

(An assessment of the damage done to Cape Town by the violent taxi strike of the 2022)

For Carte Blanche: Cape Town Taxi Strike

(A quick turnaround story about the violent taxi strike of 2022)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPRQnlI8lJo

For Carte Blanche: Pandering to Putin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTZTUOCr_Q0

(An investigation as to what might happen if the Russian Premier, Vladimir Putin came to South Africa)

For Carte Blanche: Zuma, the outdoor prisoner (Dancing with Putin)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-t8Yz_Hgo0

(A story about how former President Jacob Zuma was released from prison and why)

For Carte Blanche: Bulgarian Mafia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkkspe0oIxQ

(An investigation into the murder of four Bulgarians in Constantia, and the criminal context in which the hit took place)

For Carte Blanche : Scholar Transport Blockade

(An investigation into why taxi associations halted schooling in Khayelitsha for three weeks in a bid to break the scholar transport industry and how they failed.)

2022

For Carte Blanche: The Charl Kinnear Murder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_eUyBDnzGc

(An investigation into the murder of renowned detective Charl Kinnear, challenging why nobody had yet been brought to book)

For Carte Blanche: Cape Town Transport War

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIEB36Bn4Ck

(An investigation into the tensions brewing between the City of Cape Town and the taxi industry around bylaws)

For Carte Blanche: Phala Phala Mystery

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsUWLgVt-uM

( An investigation to understand why millions of US dollars were found allegedly in the back of the couch on the President’s farm, Phala Phala)