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SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT BROADCAST: 03 MARCH 2009 - DIK GETIK Posted on \| 2009-02-26		Back To Home

	ON TUESDAY 03 MARCH 2009, THE MULTIPLE AWARD-WINNING SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT TEAM WILL RELAUNCH IN AN EXCITING NEW FORMAT, WITH A BRAND NEW LOOK AND PRESENTER. SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT HAS BEEN AT THE FOREFRONT OF TELEVISION INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM FOR THE LAST TEN YEARS. OUR STORIES HAVE EXPOSED HORRORS, UNCOVERED CORRUPTION IN HIGH PLACES, AND TAKEN VIEWERS TO PLACES FEW HAVE GONE BEFORE. IN A SURVEY COMMISSIONED BY THE SABC TWO YEARS AGO INTO THE PUBLIC BROADCASTERS CURRENT AFFAIRS PROGRAMMING SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT WAS REPEATEDLY CITED AS ONE OF THE MOST CREDIBLE SHOWS ON TELEVISION. IN KEEPING WITH OUR COMMITMENT TO TRUTH, ACCURACY AND IMPARTIALITY IN OUR STORYTELLING, THE FIRST BROADCAST IN THE NEW SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT FORMAT LOOKS AT THE TOLL DRUG ABUSE IS TAKING ON COMMUNITIES AND SOCIAL SERVICES IN THE WESTERN CAPE. DIK GETIK UNCOVERS THE UNSPOKEN OF SUFFERING OF THE FAMILIES OF TIK ADDICTS MANY OF WHOM LIVE IN FEAR OF THEIR LOVED ONES WHO BECOME STRANGERS WHEN THEY ARE HIGH ON CRYSTAL METHAMPHETAMINE. STRUNG-OUT ADDICTS SUFFERING FROM TIK-INDUCED PSYCHOSIS ARE FLOODING HOSPITAL EMERGENCY ROOMS. MOTHERS SMOKE TIK DURING PREGNANCY AND NEONATAL WARDS ARE STRUGGLING TO COPE WITH ADDICTED NEWBORNS. THE ALREADY OVERBURDENED HEALTHCARE SYSTEM IS BUCKLING UNDER THE STRAIN. THEN THERE ARE THE FAMILY MEMBERS WHO FEAR FOR THEIR LIVES EVERY DAY, LIVING WITH TIK ADDICTS. WE SPEAK WITH ELLEN PAKKIES, WHOSE CASE MADE NATIONAL HEADLINES LAST YEAR. PAKKIES STRANGLED HER OWN SON TO DEATH, FEARING FOR HER SAFETY AFTER YEARS OF HIS TIK ABUSE. THE TEAM ALSO MEETS OTHER PARENTS WHO BARRICADE THEMSELVES INSIDE THEIR OWN HOMES AGAINST THEIR PSYCHOTIC CHILDREN. THE SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT PROGRAMME CONTAINS SHOCKING FOOTAGE OF ONE SUCH ADDICTED MAN, WHOSE FATHER CALLED THE POLICE TO THEIR HOUSE ONE NIGHT TO HELP HIM CONTROL HIS SON. AS THE CAMERAS ROLL, THE YOUNG MAN , NORMAL A SECOND BEFORE, SUDDENLY SHIFTS INTO A RAGE, AND LUNGES AT THE CAMERAMAN. THIS PROGRAMME IS PRODUCED BY SASHA WALES-SMITH. SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT, TUESDAY AT 21.30 ON SABC 3



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