A programme focused on illegal immigrants won an Artes award for investigative journalism this week for Weekly Mail Television producer Harriet Gavshon, and Nicolaas Hofmeyr, who directed the episode.
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday was flighted in the Ordinary People series. The programme showed police raids in restaurants and hotels; the deportation of an illegal immigrant; and, afterwards, several Mozambicans crossing under the electric border fence and continuing on to refuge in Soweto.
* A special one-hour Ordinary People programme will be shown on TV1 on Wednesday night at 8.30, featuring the most extraordinary South African, President Nelson Mandela. WMTV crews spent a 19-hour day with the president.