Background reading · April 2026
The Carte Blanche investigation.
For audiences arriving at our story without the South African context.
For our international audience: Carte Blanche is South Africa's longest-running and most respected investigative journalism programme. Launched in 1988 on M-Net, it has won more than 120 local and international awards over nearly four decades. It holds a place in South African public life comparable to 60 Minutes in the United States or Panorama in the United Kingdom.
On Sunday 19 April 2026, Carte Blanche aired a segment titled "Choir Captured", presented by Claire Mawisa and produced by Jo Munnik. It brought into the open what some of us had been living with privately for a long time: questions about where the money from our performances was going, and why the singers at the heart of the choir were not sharing in its success.
Watch the segment
The wider coverage
In the days that followed the broadcast, the story was picked up across South African media. We've collated that public reporting on our news page — for readers who would like a fuller account of how the story unfolded.