South Africa’s truth commission ended a two-year probe into the human rights record of apartheid on Friday with grudging testimony from the country’s former chemical warfare chief, dubbed “Doctor ...

Dr Wouter Basson, infamous for his role in apartheid's Project Coast, is challenging the HPCSA's disciplinary proceedings in ...

Dr Wouter Basson was found guilty of unprofessional conduct in December 2013. This followed a disciplinary hearing into complaints stemming from his activities in the early 1980s, when he headed the ...

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Dr Wouter Basson, infamously known as "Dr Death" for his role as the head of a top-secret chemical and biological warfare programme during apartheid, has turned to court to try and stop disciplinary ...

Cape Town - Wouter Basson says he has never had a complaint from any of the Stellenbosch University medical students he taught and does not understand the controversy surrounding his involvement with ...

Bearded, bald and appearing every bit the laboratory scientist he is, Wouter Basson took his place last week in the gallery of unlikely characters alleged to have masterminded one of history’s more ...

PRETORIA, South Africa – A poison-tipped umbrella. Deadly walking sticks and screwdrivers. A ring with a secret compartment to transport poison. A grease-like substance fatal to the touch. These may ...

A South African doctor that rose to infamy during the period of apartheid for his production of chemical weapons and drugs was found guilty this week of unprofessional conduct. Wouter Basson, who ...

PRETORIA, South Africa – The man South Africans dubbed “Dr. Death” – the mastermind behind apartheid’s bizarre and horrific chemical and biological weapons program against its black opponents – was ...

Wouter Basson's attorney has been firm: "There is no mention of any 'victims' on Wouter Basson's charge sheet" "And we won't give stature to irrelevant comments by responding to them." Wynanda Coetzee ...

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