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Coming Up: Carte Blanche Investigates Home Intruder Shootings, Taxi Drones & More

Approximately 60 house robberies (when the victim is present and under threat) take place in South Africa every day, and increasingly home owners are fighting back. (A further 676 house burglaries – when the victim is not home or threatened – occur daily.) This Sunday’s Carte Blanche explores your legal rights when experiencing a house invasion. […]

By SAPeople Contributor
27-05-18 08:45
in Entertainment
house burglaries

Approximately 60 house robberies (when the victim is present and under threat) take place in South Africa every day, and increasingly home owners are fighting back. (A further 676 house burglaries – when the victim is not home or threatened – occur daily.) This Sunday’s Carte Blanche explores your legal rights when experiencing a house invasion. (The programme is available to South Africans abroad from Tuesday 29 May 2018, if you subscribe to Showmax.)

Home Intruder Shootings

Earlier this month a fiercely protective Middelburg father gunned down three armed intruders, killing two of them, when he feared for his wife and baby’s lives. About a week later another family man in Pretoria shot and killed two armed suspects, after discovering them in his driveway (with stolen goods from his home already packed into their vehicle).

According to Carte Blanche, research shows that home invasions are one of the most feared crimes in South Africa, and that “increasingly, homeowners are stepping up and using force to fight back and defend themselves and their families”.

But is “self-defence” a feasible plea in a court of law… or could you be charged with murder?

Devi Sankaree Govender looks at the increase in violent home invasions in South Africa, and explores your legal rights in protecting you and your loved ones in the terrifying event of your home being invaded.

Don’t miss this segment, produced by Nicky Troll – this Sunday in South Africa, and streaming on Showmax from Tuesday.

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Also coming up in this episode:

Taxi Drones

There are more than a billion cars on our roads globally and with millions more added every year, our planet is increasingly congested and polluted.  Now, engineers are turning to an impressive mixture of drone technology and artificial intelligence to find a real solution for the future. Could self-piloted flying taxis help solve the urban mobility crisis and save our cities? (Producer and Presenter: John Webb)

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Coining it on Kusile

kusile power station

How did an initial budget of R80-billion for the Kusile power station skyrocket to a projected R160-billion on completion? Construction that would have taken six years may now only be finished by 2022. We investigate secrets, lies and mind-boggling cost-overruns. (Producer: Joy Summers, Presenter: Devi Sankaree Govender, Researcher: Tony Beamish)

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