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Special Assignment
2003
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Dec 2, 2003
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Restoration
- The Carlos and Dadinha story - We follow the
painful path to recovery of two heroin addicts we met in
a heroin den in Maputo. We travel with them to
Johannesburg and join them in rehab as they battle with
their demons and the terrible attraction of what they
call brown sugar. - More
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Nov
25, 2003
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Let's
talk about sex, Father - The Catholic Church, and its teachings on
sexual morality. Specifically, its insistence on
abstinence before marriage, and the ban on condom usage
in the time of the Aids pandemic. - More
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Nov
18, 2003
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Over-rated
- This
Tuesday we tackle incorrect billing, a
major consumer headache. This follows our recent call
for input from viewers who fall under the Johannesburg
Metropolitan Council. - More
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Nov 11, 2003
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Walking
on Water - With
the arrival of the Amatola,
SA's first new corvette, in Simonstown this week, the
debate around the arms deal has moved into a different
dimension. - More
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Nov 4, 2003
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RS452 - For
weeks South Africa has been gripped by the allegation
that its top prosecutor, Bulelani Ncquka, was an
apartheid spy. It was alleged that he was agent RS452 -
until it emerged that RS452 was in fact a white woman
living in London. - More
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Oct 28, 2003
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No
Special Assignment
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Oct 21, 2003
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The Price of Victory - Special Assignment is proud to announce that
we have acquired an outstanding documentary on post war
Iraq. Made by the BBC's Correspondent, this is the only
documentary of its kind to be made in the aftermath of
the war. - More
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Oct 14, 2003
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Laying down the law -
Over the past five
years, South Africans have taken part in more protests
and campaigns against sexual violence than anything
else. Yet little has changed.
Rape continues, only sometimes making headline news. - More
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Oct 7,
2003
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Dark Time - Since the parliamentary
elections in June 2000, thousands of Zimbabwean women
have been subjected to sexual violence. This has been
carried out by members of the youth militia, ZANU (PF)
supporters and it's alleged, state agents. - More
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| Sept 23, 2003 |
Mainline
- This
Tuesday Special Assignment brings its viewers one of the
biggest investigations in its five-year history: an
expose of a major heroin trafficking route through
Eastern and Southern Africa. -
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| Sept 2, 2003 |
Nowhere to turn - Kimberley - a
small town caught in a cycle of hopelessness and
despair. An average of 17 people attempt suicide every
week. Ten of these are teenagers who see taking their
own lives as a solution to their problems. - More
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| Aug 26, 2003 |
Laaities
and big guns - Hardly a month goes by
without a newspaper headline like "Pupil found with
drugs" or "Pupil shot over cellphone".
This Tuesday Special Assignment asks: are our schools
seats of learning, or hot-beds of violence? - More
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| Aug 19, 2003 |
The Anti-fat pill and the
San - There may at last be a
miracle treatment for obesity, the scourge of the 21st
century. A cactus growing in the Kalahari contains a
unique substance said to kill the appetite stone dead. -
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| Aug 12, 2003 |
Doctoring the Books -
Special
Assignment goes undercover to expose the cunning scams
perpetrated by medical professionals in cahoots with
their patients. - More
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| Aug 5, 2003 |
Traumatised Cops - Last year thousands of
cops applied to be medically boarded, the majority of
them claiming some form of trauma related illness. A
psychiatric hospital in Pretoria is always full - mostly
with policemen and women suffering from post traumatic
stress syndrome. - More
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| Jul 29, 2003 |
Waiting for Jesus - For six years 76 year old
Mbuzeli Dukuza lost all contact with his family. His
wife and five children were holed up in the compound of
the Church of Christ, on the outskirts of Umtata. Like
many others in this mysterious cult, they were waiting
there for the return of Jesus Christ. - More
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| Jul 22, 2003 |
Tiny Rays of Hope -
We track a group of boys on the East Rand
who have drifted towards a life of crime but who have,
for the moment, managed to come back from the brink.
They all come from families that are poor, dysfunctional
and ravaged by disease. - More
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| Jul 15, 2003 |
Promised
Land - This week Special
Assignment meets a small community as it takes on the
might of the military and the state. At stake, is a
pocket of land in Lohatla battle school near Upington in
the Northern Cape. - More
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| Jul 8, 2003 |
Profile: George W Bush
- Using a combination of
contemporary footage and archive material dating back to
Bush's teenage years, the documentary builds a picture
that asks one question: How (in the producer's words)
"a man with no apparent interest in politics, and
no apparent qualification, ended up running for
office." - More
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| Jul 1, 2003 |
Winter Children - Every year, thousands of
South African children land up in the burn units of the
country’s public hospitals. Many of them sustain
terrible injuries in the fires that devastate informal
settlements at this time of year. - More
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| Jun 24, 2003 |
Troubled Waters - Water
drinkers and water providers in Nelspruit are heading
for a showdown. It's a classic case of people power
versus privatisation. - More
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| Jun 17, 2003 |
A Helping Hand - Two years ago Special
Assignment visited parts of our poorest province. We
discovered that in the Mount Frere district, one out of
ten children die from malnutrition before their tenth
birthday. Although now fewer children land up in
hospital, many are still dying from diseases caused
by malnutrition. - More
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| Jun 10, 2003 |
Boeremag - An Afrikaner "prophet" from the Boer War era
predicted that at some point in the future the old Boer
republics would be restored. It seems the latter day
Boeremag have taken these prophecies literally. Many of
their plans come directly from the prophesies of Siener van Rensburg.
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| Jun 3, 2003 |
War Spin - The inside story of how the
Pentagon put journalists into the front line of its war
on Saddam to shore up its case for victory. John
Kampfner traces the roots of the controversial tactic of
embedding cameras and reporters with military units to
the Hollywood blockbusters Pearl Harbour and Black Hawk
Down. - More
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| May 27, 2003 |
Pay back time - This week Special Assignment
goes into the heart of Hillbrow for an intimate
portrayal of a community under siege. Nigerians are the
most visible, contentious and maligned immigrant
community in South Africa. - More
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| May 20, 2003 |
Traffic report - Rough estimates put the
number of Thai women trafficked into South Africa every
year at 1000. They are lured by Thai women they know…but
end up in the clutches of South African men who profit
from their suffering. - More
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| May 13, 2003 |
May Day bus disaster - Special
Assignment investigates the emergency features on buses
and comes up with a shocking find. So-called emergency
"pop out" windows exist in name only. There is
no legislation that outlines how these windows should be
tested when the vehicles go for roadworthy tests. - More
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| Apr 29, 2003 |
A time to die -
Special
Assignment asks a grim question: "What is to be
done with the nation's dead?" In a country with a huge
housing shortage, and a host of other priorities for
town planners, it hardly seems of major concern to look
for future cemetery space. - More
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| Apr 22, 2003 |
Classroom babies - Research reveals that
South African youth are sexually active from a young
age. The Department of Education is
concerned. They say that more than a third of all
teenagers in South Africa will have been pregnant by the
time they are 18. - More
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| Apr 15, 2003 |
Conduct
Unbecoming - Special Assignment investigates
allegations of malpractice & incompetence against
South Africa's self-proclaimed "most senior"
Academic Plastic Surgeon. - More
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| Apr 8, 2003 |
No
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| Apr 1, 2003 |
Sold Sisters - exposes a network of human traffickers who smuggle
Mozambican girls and women across the border and sell
them as sex slaves in South Africa. -
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| Mar 25, 2003 |
Hillbrow Blues - Over the past few months
some violent crime has shown a dramatic decline in the
Hillbrow precinct. The police believe it's the result of
a concerted effort at a high visibility policing in the
area. - More
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| Mar 18, 2003 |
Precious
Breaths - It’s a
completely curable disease…and yet thousands die of
tuberculosis every day and thousands more get TB over
and over again. In Africa today only Ethiopia and
Nigeria have higher incidences of tuberculosis than
South Africa. - More
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| Mar 11, 2003 |
Gay men
in the apartheid military - What effect
does military conscription have on men? What effect does
it have on gay men? As the world moves inexorably
towards war, the question becomes even more pertinent. -
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| Mar 4, 2003 |
It hurts to wait - Injured workers are waiting years,
not months, to be paid out by the fund set up to help them in
their hour of need. The time delays in getting claims processed
mean that many are without an income for extended periods and
some are even starving. - More
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| Feb 25, 2003 |
People are living
here - A mother and her daughter live in a condemned
building in Johannesburg's inner city. It may be only a matter
of weeks before the city's metro council will force them to
leave their tiny room. - More
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| Feb 18, 2003 |
Mozambique
on Trial - Who
was the mastermind behind the assassination of a top Mozambican
journalist? Could it be that no lesser person than the President’s
son is implicated in this gory killing? - More
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| Feb 11, 2003 |
Hospital Horrors - Dr X is the only doctor in a huge
sprawling rural hospital in Mpumalanga. She is exasperated and
desperate for help. She says people who could be saved are dying
in her hospital. She doesn't know where to turn to, she turned
to us. - More
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| Feb 4, 2003 |
My Granny, My Mom - In a devastatingly personal insight, the
documentary "My granny. My Mom" profiles the lives of
four grannies who have become mothers all over again in their
old age. - More
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| Jan 28, 2003 |
Massage Parlour Massacre
- In the first Special Assignment of the year we investigate the gruesome and perplexing killing of employees of a gay
massage parlour in Cape Town. We meet families of victims. We introduce investigators who are unraveling the complex web of Sea Point's gang-land.
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